The Henson Journals

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Thursday, January 31st, 1924.

Let me advise you in reading, to have a care of those discourses which express domestic & private actions, especially if they be such, wherein yourself purposes to venture your fortunes. For if you rectify a little your conceit, you shall see that it is the same wisdom, which manages private business, & state affairs, & that the one is acted with as much folly, & ease, as the other. If you will not believe me, then look into our colleges, where you shall see, that I say not the plotting for an headship, for that is now become a court–business, but the contriving of a bursarship of twenty nobles a year, is many times done with as great a portion of suing, siding, supplementing, & of other court–like arts, as the gaining of the secretary's place; only the difference of the person it is, which makes the one comical, the other tragical.

John Hales i. 173

Headlam went back to Gloucester after breakfast. His wife remains here for a few days. I prepared notes for the speech which I propose to make in convocation on the subject of Malines, and walked in the Park after lunch. Alas, I accepted a tender for J. Wilton & Sons for the installing of a bath &c in the Gate–house. It is to cost £46:10:0. Then the two sets of rooms must be furnished.

The weather was mild and spring–like.

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