The Henson Journals

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Saturday, November 5th, 1927.

I fritted away the morning in writing letters and working at the Edinburgh lecture. I wrote to the Duke of Atholl, and I sent him a copy of "The Bishoprick".

Watson from Houghton le Spring came to show me his statement of income, from which I gather that out of the gross income of £2500, he actually has to his own use about £1400. He told me that by his mother's death he had come into an income of about £1000 per annum. So he can hardly be reckoned among the poor clergy.

I motored to Darlington, and took train for Leeds. There I was met by the motor car of mine host, Dr Baillie, and carried to his house (Bardon Hill, Westwood, Leeds). There came to dinner, Prof: & Mrs Hamilton Thompson, Maldon & his wife (or daughter) and another lady, whose name I have forgotten. We talked freely & on many subjects. Barnes & the controversy he has aroused came under discussion: and finally we settled down to a considerable argument about Anglo–Catholicism. Hamilton Thompson professes to be a moderate Anglo–Catholick, and repudiates the extremists: but I doubt whether any essential distinction can be established between moderates & extremists. The whole position seems to me unsound, and a travesty of historical fact.