The Henson Journals

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Thursday, March 17th, 1927.

I have received an invitation to be the Guest of the Evening and propose the principal toast on the occasion of the Annual Commemorative Dinner of the Robert Louis Stevenson Club on November 12th: and (though my acquaintance with R.L.S. is by no means intimate) I incline to accept, though it will make an appreciable addition to my labours to do so. I suppose this invitation is the consequence of my having made the speech at the Scott dinner.

Spencer Wade writes to thank me for the book, & to confess his own sympathy with the Modernists on the cardinal matter of Christ's Deity. I was moved to write to him forthwith. He also suggested that Karlgren's "Bolshevist Russia" should be abridged, & issued in a cheap form. He offered himself to undertake the abridgement, & I forwarded this suggestion to the publisher of the book.

Sir Henry Craik's death was announced in the evening paper. I wrote to George Craik to condole with him on his father's death. The old man was full of whimsical egotisms, but he was good natured, & I had a true regard for him.

The Times Literary Supplement has a friendly but by no means enthusiastick "review" of my little book.

I wrote a letter to the Times instigante diabolo & headed it 'The paradoxes of Fanaticism."

Lionel & I motored to Horden, where I confirmed 88 persons in the parish church.

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