The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, December 24th, 1930.

I received form the Prime Minister's Patronage Secretary a letter with reference to the appointment to Belmont, & mentioning the names of three clergymen now working in the diocese – Suthrien, Sharpley, & Taylor. I strongly recommend Suthrien.

I wrote to Lords Londonderry and Scarbrough: and, at some length, to old D. Wilson, in reply to his defence of the Establishment. The old man still thinks and speaks as an Erastian Latitudinarian of 1860! But I have a fondness for him, and should like to retain or recover his good opinion.

The post brings an avalanche of Christmas cards & gifts: and they are welcome as tokens of affection, but the acknowledgment of them is a weariness to the flesh and a frightful expenditure of time.

I walked to the Park Gates & back. The Park was entirely empty safe for one loving couple. The weather is extraordinary mild.

I read through Bernard Shaw's, "The Apple Cart", it is amazingly good fooling, and however earnestly he may disclaim the fact in the Preface is a savage & most effective satire on "Democracy" as we have it in England today.

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