The Henson Journals

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Monday, July 18th, 1927.

Pelham had to go off to an education meeting immediately after breakfast. I left about 9.15 a.m., and motored to Lake End, where Mrs Quirk received me kindly. We mounted the hill, and got very hot, but were rewarded by noble prospects of the Lake & Mountains. The effect of an almost complete abstinence from physical exertion such as perforce marks my normal course of life is felt but too plainly when one climbs a hill, & at every step brings under strain some effete muscles or other! In the afternoon we went up the Lake in the little steamer, & were met at Coniston by Leng with the car. Thus we returned to the house in time to receive at tea a party of neighbours, including Mrs & Miss Gaisford, whom we met originally at Linburn, & during the War, when General Gaisford was stationed in Newcastle. We walked round to the next house to see Miss Brydson's garden, which is her own design & handiwork. She impressed me as amiable, versatile, and intelligent.

The reports of my sermon at Furness Abbey are meagre enough, though a reasonable degree of prominence is given to the Commemoration. I regret the absence of any adequate account of what I said because Cardinal Bourne follows close on my steps with his interpretation of the facts!

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