The Henson Journals

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Saturday, April 28th, 1928.

A warm & brilliant day, though with a cold wind. I worked at my preparation for tomorrow both in the morning & in the evening. This with my letters occupied about 7 hours.

Ella and I walked to Binchester Farm, & left cards on the Thompsons who were not at home: being in fact in Newcastle attending a great gathering of Conservatives, and listening to Winston Churchill. Lady Eden & Fearne attended the same meeting.

The St Anne's Football Club having won 'the Shield' desired to be photographed, and impudently sent to request me to join them. This, with characteristic deference to the impudence of adolescents, I did. Birney, the Vicar of Witton Park, was with the youth, & I had a short talk with him.

The Papist Blundell asks that his correspondence with me might be published. It is difficult to refuse this request though, if I had contemplated publication, I should certainly have bestowed more pains on my share in the said correspondence. It is evident that my letters in the Times made an impression on the lay Papists, and they are really anxious to separate themselves, so far as they decently can, from the position taken up by Cardinal Bourne, who is not an able controversialist. I wrote to William.