The Henson Journals

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Friday, November 21st, 1930.

The close warm weather continues: & it rained heavily. I left Park Lane after breakfast, and travelled to Darlington by the Pullman express, which brought me in at 4.7 p.m. Here Leng met me with the car. I found, much to my surprize & something to my annoyance, that Ella had left by the early train to visit cousins in the South of England.

I wrote a number of letters.

I sent to Sir Austen Chamberlain as I promised when we talked t at Grillions, my pamphlet on "Church & State". Also, I wrote to Lord Londonderry, congratulating him on his election as Chancellor of Durham University. This circumstance ought to stimulate him to more ardent efforts to save Durham Castle. I wrote to Alfred Toomey at S. Augustine's Canterbury, in answer to a letter from him, which disclosed a scrupulous mind, & confirmed me in my favourable impression of his character.

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