The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, September 14th, 1927.

Nothing seems to have worn out Butler like the incessant talking of the people round about him.

Principal Alexander Whyte.

A woeful wet day. I worked at the Article, which must be set off tomorrow. It made but small progress. The fact is that I work under the worst known condition of literary composition viz. a wealth of material & a dearth of ideas! I really don't exactly know what it is that I desire to say about these demure & concerted fanaticks. After lunch I walked round the Park in the rain with Lionel. Colonel Craster & his wife (erstwhile Christian Caröe) arrived on a short visit. She is thin and dead, a melancholy condition for a comparatively young woman. Both of them had been reading "Mother India", and both declared it to be true, yet not wholly fair, since it omitted the features of Indian life which tend to mitigate the unsavoury facts which it states.

Cook of Spennymoor wrote to accept Seaton Carew: the patronage of Spennymoor is in the Dean & Chapter, and they must appoint somebody who has been at last 5 years in the diocese.