The Henson Journals
Wed 13 March 1929
Volume 47, Page 163
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Wednesday, March 13th, 1929.
The weather continues to be warm.
Ella, Lionel, and I motored to Newcastle where I arranged with Cook's Agency about the tour abroad, had my spectacles mended, and had my hair cut. After depositing Ella at the Gateshead rectory, Lionel and I returned to Auckland for lunch. Then I walked in the Park, and, on my return, finished the Presidential Address.
The local tailor (who told me that he regularly made my predecessor's clothes) came & measured me for a suit which would serve me abroad. – a little round dapper man who might have illustrated tailor–dom in any age.
Lionel and I motored to Durham, where I confirmed 130 persons in S. Margaret's Church. There was much coughing, the audible evidence of the influenza epidemic which has been ravaging Durham.
Dr McCullagh sends me the following book to read as likely to be serviceable in view of our forth–coming visit to Avignon & that part of France – "Old Provence" by Theodore Andrea Cook, M.A., F.S.G., in 2 vols. Rivington's. 1905.