DA/1/1/22/2

DA/1/1/22/2

Item

Commonplace Book of Edward Lowry Henderson

1892-1955

1 notebook

A bound notebook (130mm x 215mm) of 254 numbered pages, titled "The Cambridge University Notebook", with brown cardboard covers, the back cover and the spine now missing, the binding loose and pulling apart, a rear portion completely detached. Almost 100 blank pages at the end. The owner's name on the front cover with the date Aug 1892; the last dated entry Jan 1945. Edward Lowry Henderson (1873-1947) was educated at Radley and Oriel College and ordained in 1899. He was subsequently Curate of St Anne's, Limehouse; Rector of St Margaret's, Lowestoft; and a residentiary Canon at Gloucester Cathedral. Appointed Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, in 1919; Dean of St Albans in 1925; and Dean of Salisbury in 1936. He retired in 1943 and died in 1947.The Commonplace Book seems therefore to have been used - if sparingly - through most of his adult life. One or two inserted items date from afte his death, including one undated obituary. Very varied contents and insertions: theological and doctrinal articles ("The Bishop of Gloucester on Transubstantiation"; "Does Sin Matter?"), a wide range of quotations, references, letters, poems, drawings and cartoons; two tickets for the Oxford v Cambridge match at Twickenham on 7 Dec 1937. Copied passages and quotations, both serious and humorous, from such as Augustine, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Herbert, Charles Kingsley, Blaise Pascal, Dorothy Sayers and Robert Louis Stevenson. Some presumably original poems by Henderson himself; drawings and cartoons by his friend A E M (Alfred) Glover, sometime Vicar of St Olave's, York; a letter dated 7 Mar 1924 from L R (Lancelot) Phelps (1853-1936), Provost of Oriel College (1914-1930).