The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, November 12th, 1930.

I spent the morning in writing letters, among them one to Burkitt, sending with it a copy of my pamphlet, "Church and State in England'. Those Cambridge professors played an ill part in the long controversy over Prayer Book Revision, & they are as self–satisfied as they are mischievous. I suspect that they are beginning to see their victory in defeating the Revised Book may have consequences which they did not contemplate, and do not like.

Charles accompanied me to Hedworth where, in an asphyxiating atmosphere, I confirmed 51 persons from the parishes of West Boldon (Leake), S. George, East Boldon (Richardson), and Hedworth (Wilton), of which the combined population is about 11,000.

I received a letter from Mr. Francis Brett Young, thanking me for the flatterous reference to his novel, "My brother Jonathan", which I made in my address to the Medical Students. He had read it in the British Medical Journal. He writes: "It touched me particularly, I think, because, in all my literary career, this is the first time that I have ever received a compliment from a dignitary of the Church."

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