The Henson Journals

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Friday, January 11th, 1929.

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My article appears in the Times under the heading "The Bishops and the State. Sir L. Dibdin's Argument. Reply by Dr Henson." It coheres, & reads easily, but if I had not written it so hastily, I could have made it much better.

I paid £500 on account of Income Tax: and £78:17:7 on account of the Visitation. During the afternoon, Tony Chute and I walked in the Park for nearly two hours. The melting snow made walking rather toilsome.

I wrote to the Rev. F.A. Rainbow, offering to nominate him to Consett, & coupling with it the Rural Deanery of Lanchester. The Russian Prince came to dinner, & then went with Ella and Fearne to a dance in Durham. Tony came to my room, & we gossiped together until prayer–time. I gave him a copy of "Cross–Bench Views of Current Church Questions" – a volume which has a certain melancholy interest as a record of my opinions when I first went to Westminster. It is astonishing how little I have changed.

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