The Henson Journals

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Monday, November 18th, 1929.

I received from Mary Radford very disconcerting tidings about Kenneth. She offered to talk to him; and I at once wrote to accept her offer. It looks as if I made a mistake in enabling that boy to get to Oxford.

I wrote to Prof: Watson at Oxford in answer to his letter, & thanking him for a report of his Cambridge sermon on Methodism.

Then I revised my Notes for the Rural Deaneries.

Pattinson and I walked round the Park, picking up Dr McCullagh on the way.

We motored to Stockton–on–Tees, where I admitted the new Vicar to the perpetual curacy of St James, from which Jones retired after 23 years tenure of the benefice. The new man is a youngish looking man about 40 years of age, married, with 2 small children. His name is Wood, and he hails from the south. There was a good muster of the local clergy, but the congregation was smaller than I had expected. The weather, going and returning, was wet & boisterous.

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