The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, January 21st, 1931.

I went to the hair–dresser for a final shampoo, & paid a visit to the book seller, where I bought Winston Churchill's latest book, "My early life", as provender for the journey, & then 'took up my carriages', and returned to Auckland by the Pullman express, which brought me to Darlington at 4.7 p.m. There I was met by Charles, & so came to the Castle, where I found Ella downstairs, & looking much better.

I wrote civilly to Shebbeare, acknowledging the "magnanimity" of his reception of my "rebuke", and postponing the casuistic discussion to a more convenient season.

I sent a cheque for Derek's fees to the Headmaster, and wrote to his mother in reply to a letter from her. Term begins tomorrow.

The bishop of Carlisle told me yesterday that Professor Taylor of S. Andrew's, who has become our leading Anglican philosopher, since Rashdall's death, and Inge's decline into journalism, has been received into the Roman Church. If this be so, the Papists will have made a considerable capture.

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