The Henson Journals

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Monday, December 22nd, 1924.

I motored into Durham, and attended a meeting of the Barrington Trustees, returning to Auckland for lunch. An aspirant for Ordination, named Moore, came to see me: and Ernest arrived from Sedbergh. After lunch Ernest and I walked round the Park.

Canon Maynard Smith wrote to say that he was engaged upon a Life of the Bishop of Zanzibar, and would be grateful for anything that I could say about him. I wrote him a letter, of which I kept a copy.

George's present arrived – a brilliant Japanese jacket for Ella, and a photograph of himself.

Mr Dillon sent me "The Lost Dominion" by Al. Carthill, and Lord Sands sent a volume of short stories by himself entitled "Of the Chain".

Ella and Fearne went into Durham to attend the dance which Dawson–Walker gives to celebrate the coming–of–age of his son, Hervey. Ernest came to my room, and talked for two hours before going to bed

Is it merely the surviving influence of an irrational Puritan prejudice that makes me restive whenever these dances come on the tapis or is it a legitimate and irrepressible movement of the Christian conscience to which I am morally bound to give heed?

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