The Henson Journals

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Friday, January 16th, 1931.

Charles accompanied me to Darlington where I took train for Warwick. I travelled from York to Birmingham in the company of a schoolboy named Hedley, who was going back to school at Clifton from his home at Middlesborough.[sic] The car met me at the station in Warwick, & carried me to the Castle. I found Anthony Eden & his wife staying there. Lady Warwick is Mayor of the City. Her son, Fulke, the young Earl, and her daughter made up the party. After dinner his Lordship showed me the State rooms, which are magnificent. I had not expected to see such a wealth of pictures, furniture, armour etc.: but the family was in the past very wealthy: it was generally on the winning side at crises of political trouble; and its accumulated treasures have never been dispersed. The portraits by Vandyck & Holbein are wonderful: & the furniture which came from Kenilworth most sumptuous. I have never seen such elaborate carved beds and panelling elsewhere.

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