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charming and ideal. Miss. Grace Watson, one time well known in Melbourne as Secretary of the Australian Womens National League, was often my companion on these excursions, and I recall with pleasure our pleasant chats in the beautiful surroundings of Chorley Woods, the Kew Gardens, the Botanical and Zoological Gardens, Hampton Court etc.
Through Lady Harrowby's courtesy arrangements were made for me to view Lambeth Palace, the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and that was of wonderful interest. There was the restored crypt of great architectural beauty, the library's collections of noted ecclesiastical writers for hundreds of years, available always to theological students, the noted windows, the marvellous proportions of the ceiling, and ancient chapel, and still standing are the cells that imprisoned ecclesiastical divines and other notables who shared differences of opinion in the 'good old days'.