The Henson Journals

[125]

Thursday, February 14th, 1929.

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This extraordinarily cold weather continues. I spent the whole morning on the Charge, which now nauseates me!

Unwin, the assistant curate of S. Gabriel's, Sunderland, came to lunch, & walked with me in the Park. He meditates leaving the diocese, moved to his decision by want of money, &, perhaps, a certain restlessness. I tried to persuade him to stay, but whether I succeeded is doubtful.

The publishers send me Lord Haldane's Autobiography, a stout volume of 355 pp. Apart from the interest of his life, and of the self–revelation of his character, I am curious to see how he frames his narrative, and the degree of candour which he allows himself in speaking of his friends. Of course, he was temperamentally cautious & even lethargic: and there will have been a process of bowdlerizing in the matter of personal references, which will hide something even in his case.

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