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Jane Wolfe Diary Entry Tuesday, 28 November 1939
Charles Stansfeld Jones—Frater Achad of A∴A∴; now of the Roman Catholic Church and the Universal Brotherhood, which Wilfred [Wilfred Talbot Smith] thinks must have R. Catholic connections, in for lunch and the afternoon. Nine years since he stopped on his way from England to Vancouver. During these years a definite change: no future, no planning, collecting books, visiting U.B. Brethren. Age Pervades his atmosphere—decay has set in. Smith said he felt like a father talking to a child.
On joining the church, (I now realize he was not asked), he went in for rigorous training and discipline and I am wondering if it was not a necessary fight for anchorage against battles of doubts, etc., etc. He is 54 years of age and will adopt 2 more tiny girls, the other one, the first, is now 27, unmarried and content to remain at home . The babies are 2 1/2 and 6 months old.
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