Many cards from Downside boys and staff. Seeing Fr Rogers frequently may help him - he is a good man. The church committee is mandated not to get into debt and all church improvements are paid for by benefactors - not church funds. Deanery minutes were just pointing out the danger of extraordinary ministers becoming ordinary ones. Mention of other parish oddities: one not having had confessions since last Easter; another replaced the Gospel with children reading out their compositions; another reading out snippets from the pastoral letter.

Mrs Ethel Throckmorton (The Grange, Beccles) wishing the Bishop a Happy Christmas and New Year. Now settled in the new Beccles home; ;after the turmoil of Lowestoft. Hope to see the Bishop in the Summer.
manuscript annotation: "Sent Xmas card. Dec 28/25"