The Henson Journals

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Monday, January 21st, 1929.

I worked on the Preface but not very usefully, until lunch time, when Surtees, the Rector of Brancepeth arrived bringing with him the Revd E.F. Tallents, Vicar of Kimbolton, whom he had asked to accept the vicarage of Brandon, which has now been vacant for three months.

Tallents is a heavy–looking man of fifty–six, with a slow, slightly pompous manner, & a conventionally parsonic manner of speaking. He professes himself a moderate High Churchman, who abhors this latter–day Anglo–Catholicism. So far, so good, but will he get anybody to work with him on these lines?

I walked round the Park with the dogs, & then had an interview with Mr Robinson, the very intelligent man who has charge of the Labour work of the Government in this district. Steel–Maitland recommended him to me in very emphatic terms.

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