The Henson Journals

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Monday, January 31st, 1927.

I received from Gore a well–written and effective tract on the nauseous, and insistent subject of "Birth Control". Having read it through, I sent him a brief letter expressing my substantial agreement with him on that subject.

Then I worked at the Lecture all the morning, but I am even yet not quite clear as to my intentions therein! After lunch I spent more than an hour with Mr Spedding the dentist. Then I walked in the Park, &, returning to the house, resumed work on the Lecture.

Miss Donaldson writes to me a long letter of self–exculpation, from which I received the impression that she regrets her resignation. But it is too late to go on that now: & my civil reply assumed that to be the case. There has clearly been some muddling, and a certain amount of feminine friction. If ever women come to bear rule in Church and State, the wheels of government will not run smoothly.

The Revd Norman Sykes sends me a type–written letter in red ink in [sic] acknowledging a copy of "The Bishoprick", with the observations on his Life of Bishop Gibson. He says that the pressure of his work at King's College leaves him no leisure to pursue his historical studies. This is really a public misfortune, for he has proved his quality, and a really good ecclesiastical history for the 18th century is greatly needed.

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