The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, November 14th, 1928.

I left 21 Park Lane after breakfast, & after leaving my bags at the Athenaeum went onto the Church House, & spent the morning in attending the Assembly. The Cathedrals measure was the subject of debate. Cuthbert Turner made a characteristic speech against the measure & was applauded. The quaintness of his appearance & his well–established reputation for learning added zest to his speech. I lunched at the Westminster Deanery, & then returned to the Assembly. Then I went to the Club & had tea. After which I drove to King's Cross, and took train for Darlington, where Lionel met me with the car, & drove me to the Castle through heavy rain.

Among my letters awaiting my return was one from Kenneth written in a careless contented tone, which indicates but too clearly that he has little understanding of his position. He has a rude awakening for, if (as seems probable) he has to leave Oxford, & return to the old familiar places in which for the last 18 months he has strutted with the pride & consequence of academic character, he will experience the mortal chill of a humiliation hard to bear.

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