The Henson Journals

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Thursday, February, 4th, 1926.

Miss Lawrie went away with Ella & Fearne, to go together as far as Durham, where their ways parted. She going to Scotland, & they to Gateshead. I wrote some necessary letters, and cleared up the disorder of my study.

The papers report the melancholy & mysterious fate of a Durham undergraduate, who was found decapitated on the railway line quite near to Durham. He has been identified as young Ponsonby, whom his father, a London clergyman, brought here to lunch last autumn.

After lunch, in spite of falling rain, I walked round the Park.

I motored to Newcastle, & delivered my lecture on Tyndale at Armstrong College. There was a very small audience, unworthy of the subject, & uncomplimentary to the lecturer. However they listened attentively, & seemed to be interested. The Bishop of Newcastle & Mrs Wilde were present. After the lecture we – Ella & Fearne having joined – dined with Sir Thomas Oliver & his daughter. He was very interesting. We returned to Auckland after dinner, arriving at the Castle about 10.30 p.m. There was sufficient fog to render the chauffeur's task somewhat anxious.

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