The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, October 1st, 1924.

I wrote to Little, the curate of Winlaton, offering him the living of Eighton Banks, which Lister the curate of Tanfield has declined on account of the size & dilapidated condition of the vicarage. Then we all motored into Durham, where I "admitted" several "Pilgrims" in the Deanery chapel, and had some talk with Lillingston, to whom I offered the Rural Deanery of Durham, vacated by Watson on his removal to Houghton–le–Spring: with the Precentor about the music at the Visitation: and with Bailey, about an extremely interesting inquiry which he has received from a member of the Athenaeum respecting Bishop Cosin. Lady Olga Montagu and her sister joined us, & we brought them out to lunch at Auckland. After lunch I showed them the Castle, & then Ella accompanied them back to Durham, and I walked round the Park with Ruth, who is a most charming companion, as she not only talks with intelligence but so evidently enjoys the walk. On my return Jimmie Dobbie came to see me, & I wasted an hour with him. He tells me, & his view on the subject is likely to be shared by his contemporaries of the same type & class, that the general view was that "The Cardinal had been put back into his proper place"! This is, so far as it goes, satisfying enough.

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