The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, January 12th, 1926. Lambeth Palace.

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I think we ought to have a new Preface explaining the reasons which have determined our choice of names for insertion or retention in the new & much enlarged calendar which we propose to include in the revised Prayer Book.

I received the Holy Communion in the Chapel at 8 a.m. We laboured harmoniously enough at the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels all day long. Arthur Headlam, who had been absent yesterday, was in his place, & took a small but perverse part in the proceedings. He is certainly very difficult to understand, and altogether impossible to work with.

The Bishop of Hereford told me that he had received a letter from Sir John Cotterill, the Lord–Lieutenant of Herefordshire, saying that, if the Shropshire Bishoprick measure, passed, he would absent himself from the 1250th anniversary Commemoration. There seems some likelihood of many others following his example, and indeed, the Commemoration could hardly be anything but a farcical performance in the situation which would have been created. I offered to withdraw my promise to be the preacher on the occasion, & he seemed rather to jump at the suggestion!

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