The Henson Journals

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Monday, February 16th, 1931.

A most beautiful day, beginning with frost but becoming almost springlike. There is a mighty pother among the rooks, and there is a sound of singing at day–break. I occupied the morning in the futile task of preparing an answer to the Dean's questions. In the afternoon I walked for an hour in the park with Dr McCullagh.

An Ordination candidate named Suthraen came to tea. He sought and obtained my permission to his offering a tithe from Stranton. He was not a very prepossessing youth to look at, but he seemed both sincere & ardent. He hopes to spend his life, after 3 years in Durham, as a missionary to Moslems.

Basil McCrorie writes again repeating his appeal for assistance, & putting me to the hateful necessity of again rejecting it.

Paine, who is to have charge of the work of pulling down the stables &c, appeared on the scene. I gave him permission to use the rooms in the Gatehouse, if he could arrive at an arrangement with Ashton. I am not sanguine as the fulfilment of this condition.

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