The Henson Journals

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Monday, July 8th, 1929.

Lord Chelmsford & Miss Headlam went off by the early train. Lang motored them to Darlington.

I completed the Liverpool sermon, and then had an interview with Parry–Evans.

In the afternoon Lionel & I motored to Hart where I consecrated an addition to the churchyard, & gave an address.

On returning to the Castle, I wrote to Cobb, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Hartlepool, offering him the little living of Coniscliffe.

I made an effort, & finished an article on 'The word Protestant, 1529–1929' for the Bishoprick, & Fearne made a copy of the Liverpool Sermon. These, together with the address at the Chancellor's Installation, will suffice for my contribution to the Bishoprick. I sent them to Carter.

Mrs Copemann, Mrs Cruickshank, and two monstrously plain girls named Alcock, nieces of Mary Retford, arrived on a visit. Great graces of the spirit are required to outweigh such defects of its carnal frame! The weather was quite chilly.

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