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Charles Barnes’ wife called this afternoon and brought me a note from Mr Doyne, of the Ophthalmic Hospital, Oxford, to Dr Routh, saying he would gladly receive Charles on Saturday. But they had not been able to ascertain what the cost of maintenance as an in-patient would be. His wife said she would try to go with him tomorrow and hear what Mr Doyne said about him. I gave her £1 out of Town Estate Charity towards necessary expenses.
Intensely cold. Very few in church.
On leaving Mr. Woolgrove’s I met Mr. Richard Lamb who asked me whether he might come to me some evening to ask me some questions about the Town Estate. I said he might. He added that it would be in quite a friendly manner. He said something about the Trusteeship and George Hall, adding that the School here did not used to be called a Church of England School. I replied that the management of it was handed over to me as a Church School, and that its founder probably intended it as a Church School seeing that it was founded in either Edward VI or Queen Elizabeth’s reign and we were working under orders of the Court of Chancery of James I.
Last Sunday at Bickley the thermometer fell to 1°F.
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