The Henson Journals

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Thursday, January 17th, 1929.

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A bitter frost, & the snow firm and crisp. I worked at the Preface all the morning, and walked in the snow with Kenneth in the afternoon. He returns to Oxford tomorrow. Then the doctor came and inoculated me for influenza. The General at York strongly recommended this precaution, and in view of the dreadful dislocation of arrangements involved in even a few days illness during the "Confirmation" season! I thought it well to yield.

Osborne, the Rector of Wallsend–on–Tyne writes:–

"May I be allowed as one whose favourite study in the intervals of constant work of a parochial description has been that of history especially of those departments of it in which Church history & the history of civilization mingle, to thank you & to express my admiration for your splendid reply to Sir L. Dibdin in the Times."

Osborne was Father Tyrell's intimate friend.

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