The Henson Journals

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Saturday, September 3rd, 1927.

I worked rather helplessly at the Article. Ella led most of the party to Mount Grace to see the pageant, and I walked round the Park. Ralph & Kitty arrived about tea–time: & the Dean of Westminster & his wife shortly afterwards. Lord Darling and Di arrived by car. So we are rather a large party, with Mrs Murray & her American, Mrs Armstrong & her husband.

Mr Justice Roche writes:–

"I was talking to young Halsbury some weeks back, & found him like so many of us laymen suspicious about the Prayer Book & inclined to oppose. Finding, as was not unnatural, that he respected your opinion, I told him to talk to you, & he promised to do so, & be guided thereby. I fancy he is not without influence amongst the younger peers & lay politicians generally and therefore such a talk may be worth while."

I have never met Lord Halsbury, so that I hardly see how to get at him. It might, perhaps, be worth while to send him the copy of the Bishoprick which contains the E.R. article.

Our dinner party numbered 16, viz: the house–party, with the General from Catterick and ourselves. I have just enough conscience to spoil my enjoyment of social pleasures, not enough to induce me to abandon them!