The Henson Journals
Fri 28 December 1928
Volume 47, Page 56
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Friday, December 28th, 1928.
I completed and despatched a letter to Lord Davidson of Lambeth. Then I wrote sympathetically to old Chancellor P.V. Smith accepting his resignation of office. The papers announce the death "after an operation" of Archdeacon Money–Kyrle in Hereford. I wrote a letter of condolence to his widow. A box of peaches from South Africa "with best wishes for a happy Xmas, William" arrived. That was kind of the boy.
Our guests spent the day in visiting the Labour Exchanges, & went away in the afternoon. I motored into Durham, & procured presents for the Brydens, returning forthwith to the Castle.
Mordaunt Gore–Booth & his son, Paul, a big boy of 19, who has just finished his first term at Balliol, arrived on a visit. Also Linetta. The presence of guests in the house is wonderfully disturbing. Even though I do nothing to "entertain" them, there is a restless atmosphere & a general sense of flutterment, which make serious work all but impossible.