The Henson Journals

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Thursday, December 20th, 1928.

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A beautiful day, comparatively mild & windless. I worked all day at the Charge for the Candidates, but I am too "hustled and bustled" to do good work, last of all work of that kind. Was ever any really good work produced under conditions of haste? I doubt it.

In the afternoon I walked round the Park with Dr McCullagh: and then Lady Lawrence and George arrived.

Mr Chesney sends me a photograph of himself in surplice, when a choir boy of St Margaret's, Westminster. He is now a man of over forty, but his memories of St Margaret's retain a strange hold over him. "The thoughts of a boy are long, long thoughts", – which is rather a terrifying reflection for their seniors, who may make a lasting impression which they do not suspect & would not at all approve. I remember "little Mac", as we called him, as a small & extremely pugnacious boy, who was always being reported for disorder!

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