The Henson Journals

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Saturday, December 15th, 1928.

There was a heavy fall of snow during the night, and the roads were in a bad state. I "cried off" attending Plummer's funeral in Sunderland, & fell to clearing up my room, & writing letters.

J.G. Wilson came to tea, and I motored to Durham with him. There I called on the Bishop of Jarrow, & discussed appointments to the 9 vacant livings.

I received a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury conveying a suggestion from the Home Secretary, that I should consent to give evidence in favour of prohibiting "The Well of Loneliness" as an obscene book. I did not see why I should allow my name to be associated, even in so respectable a fashion, with the nauseous subject which that notorious book deals with: and, accordingly, I wrote at once to his Grace declining the suggested procedure.

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