The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, December 2nd, 1930.

I wasted the morning in writing a foolish little article, "Of the Pitfall of Mistaken Identity", for the "Eclipse", which is the Durham School magazine. I was led to this folly by an earnest request from Derek.

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My letter appeared in the Times under the heading, "Church and State. The Birmingham Moral". It does not wholly please me, but it says some necessary things, and say them unmistakeably.

After lunch I walked round the Park with Charles and Dr McCullagh, and, on my return to the Castle, lent to the latter Oke's 'Basketfull of Memories', and Inge's 'Christian Mysticism'. At least that old man has retained, for the solace of unemployed old age, an omnivorous appetite for books.

Mrs Davison, the wife of the Vicar of S. Helen's, West Auckland, was knocked down by a motor in the street outside the Vicarage, &, according to the evening paper, was badly shaken. As she is both elderly and substantial, such a shaking may well be serious. The perils of the streets grow greater daily, & the toll of death and mutilation rises steadily.

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