The Henson Journals

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Monday, November 21st, 1927.

A very wet day, gloomy and gusty. I spent the morning in writing letters. There came to lunch Mr John Troupe, a secondary school master, who brought his brother to see me with a view of ordination. He is an ardent member of the Labour Party.

I motored to Durham taking Jimmie Dobbie with me. He came to the door just as I was starting. I had some talk with the Bishop of Jarrow on divers matters of diocesan business. Thanks, partly, to my absence in London, &, partly to my proper incompetence, the actual administration of the diocese is passing rapidly into the hands of my suffragan! Happily he loves power and importance, and I don't! On returning to the Castle, I addressed & despatched 30 copies of the Bishoprick.

The Times contains the following:–

"Wildboars, considered to be the sign of a severe winter are particularly numerous this year in Switzerland. Several herds numbering from five to nine animals have been seen in the Jura mountains, &, for the first time in 100 years, wildboars have made their appearance in the Rhone Valley. The presence of windboars in Switzerland is a consequence of the War. In 1914 troops of wildboars disturbed by the fighting in the Vosges emigrated into Switzerland, &, it looks as if, since then, some families have taken the habit of spending their "winter holidays" in the Swiss mountains, where they are very welcome guests."