The Henson Journals

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Thursday, February 14th, 1924.

Herein lay the secret of Byron's potency, that he could remint and issue in fresh splendour the familiar coinage of the world's wit. Moreover he lived in a great age, when great truths are born again, and appear in a new light.

Byron's Works vol. II. P 239 note

I worked at the sermon to undergraduates. Nicholson, who has resigned the curacy of Bishop Auckland, came to lunch. He aspires to become Vicar of Forest and Frith.

Ella and I motored to South Hill, where we had tea with the Storys. Old Mr Story [Storey] talked very interestingly. He is an ardent tariff–reformer, a great admirer of Disraeli, very scornful of the Liberal party, and very fearful of Socialism. I asked him whether he had kept a journal, and he replied in the negative, adding that, of all the numerous letters from well–known men he had received in the course of his life, he had not preserved more than half a dozen. He confessed regret at this action which, at the time, had seemed required by the pressure of his life.

On my return to Auckland, I wrote to Mr Hugh, Vicar of Winston, asking him to become the first rural dean of the newly constituted Rural Deanery of Barnard Castle.

The weather today has been fine and sunny, but extremely cold.

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