The Henson Journals

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Friday, July 27th, 1928.

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The newspapers continue to prepare me for somebody else's appointment to York! Thus the 'Manchester Guardian' is good enough to inform its readers that my 'friends know that I have not been in good health for some time', which is news to me! It adds that I am 'not likely to be anxious to move from Auckland Castle to Bishopsthorpe', which is nearer the truth. The 'Spectator' says:

'The name of the Bishop of Durham, Dr Hensley Henson, comes first to the minds of most people, but it is not certain that he will be willing to leave his diocese'

Many papers dwell on my extreme antiquity!

Newsom and his wife came to lunch by way of saying Goodbye before they go to Cambridge. He is as amiable, muddle–headed and optimistic as ever. There is, perhaps, a certain strength is this constitutional inability to perceive facts and measure tendencies.

I motored to Newcastle, and attended a meeting of the Durham Castle Preservation Fund. After all our efforts the total amount collected amounts to no more than £17,000, and about £3000 has been promised. It is very disheartening.