The Henson Journals

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Saturday, July 14th, 1928.

The wonderful hot weather continues, & though rather exhausting, is most delightful. I wrote personal appeals for Durham Castle to Lord Melchet (Sir Alfred Mund), Sir John Ropner, and Mrs Webster. Also I wrote yet another begging letter to the Times.

I revised the old sermons which I have selected for use tomorrow.

An Ordination Candidate named Needham came from Stockton to see me. He is 19 1/2 years old, & a member of St John's College.

Ella took Charles Smith & his wife to Durham, & there showed them the Cathedral and the Castle, & had tea with the Meade–Falconers.

I picked up three youths in the Park, & showed them the Chapel etc. Two were brickmakers, and one a painter. They seemed to be interested in what they were shown, but who can guess what really impressed them?

I corrected the proof of my article for the Bishoprick, and returned them to Carter. It does not please me, but it must serve. Jimmie writes to me from Sunderland to say that everybody is agreed that I must go to Lambeth!!! Everybody means, of course, the evening paper!!