The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, January 24th, 1928.

I finished the 'Preface', and decided to include in the volume divers articles which have already seen the light as well as the Cambridge Sermon, the whole sufficing to make up a small volume. I wrote to Hodder & Stoughton proposing that they should publish the said volume forthwith, and also to the Editor of 'The Nineteenth Century & After' asking permission to use the article headed 'The passing of National Churches' which was originally composed as a Lecture, & then made into an article in that Journal.

In the afternoon I motored to Durham, and attended a meeting of the small executive Committee for the Durham Castle preservation Fund. I said that I would myself subscribe £500.00, which is vastly more than I can afford. Lord Durham did not appear, pleading illness, but he sent the gratifying information that His Majesty had contributed £100.00: and the Queen £50.00. This is important.

I returned to Auckland. Linnell and his wife arrived to stay the night. I had some talk with him about his own situation. he evidently chafes under the incessant polemic of his incumbent, who had the 'No Popery' craze on the brain.