The Henson Journals

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Monday, October 1st, 1928.

Rode Hall to the Palace, Gloucester.

Another brilliant autumnal morning, with the sun shining brightly over a frost–whitened landscape, in which the verdure of the trees was beginning to yield to the russets, reds, & yellows of the Fall.

We left Rode Hall about 10.45 a.m. & motored to Gloucester by way of Newcastle–under–Lyne, Market Drayton, Wallington, Bridgnorth [sic], Kidderminster, Hartlebury, Worcester, & Tewkesbury, arriving at 4 p.m. We stopped at Hartlebury Castle, & lunched with the Bishop. We were received at the Palace in Gloucester by Miss Maud Headlam. There were staying at the Palace Professor Deissmann and a Danish Bishop. Miss Rose Headlam, & a former Bible–Clerk, Lewis Headlam, made up the palatial party. After dinner we all motored to Cheltenham, & attended the Mayor's reception. I endured this horrible "perpendicular" for an hour, & then we returned to Gloucester. A number of people claimed to know me, whom I neither knew nor cared to know. Jack Clayton was there.

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