The Henson Journals

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Easter Monday, April 21st, 1924.

A warm bright morning but with an insecure promise for the day. The chimney in my study smoked constantly, rendering the room almost uninhabitable, a circumstance the more exasperating since I had much to do in preparation for my departure this afternoon. It is ever so: one's instruments break and fail precisely when they are most needed! This is as true of human instruments as of the others, & more trustworthy kind.

For income tax purposes I have been computing exactly my "literary earnings" for the year Easter 1923 to Easter, 1924.: the list stands thus:

April 1923	Manchester Guardian	£5.5.0
"	Edinburgh Review	23
June	Nineteenth Century & After	5
Aug.	Morning Post	21
"	British Weekly	3.3
Oct.	Spectator	4.
Jan. 1924.	Sunday Times	6.6
"	Times Literary Supplement	6
Feb.	Nineteenth Century & After	7
April	Reviews of the Churches	10.10
–	Edinburgh Review	18.
–	–	£109.4.

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