Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths, Hilda Collens
1940

Geoffrey Griffiths is sympathetic to Ida Carroll as she now has to run the school almost singlehandedly since Miss Collens has taken ill (we know she had shingles at the beginning of the war which took her out for some months but later he indicates she's also been hit by a bike - not the best year for Hetty.)
They have even fewer hours in the week to connect with each other and he longs for an "equatorial island of peace" they could go to together.
He shares a dream he had, a sort of anxiety dream on her behalf, he calls it a nightmare since what else could it have been when he could have been dreaming of her.
Even though he can't be with her, "G.B.H." in letters is nearly enough to "make me swoon away."

Ref: CARROLL/IGC/3 GG
With thanks to the Ida Carroll Trust
Date is unknown.

Part of the #NSM2020 project "A 20/20 Legacy: the centenary of the Northern School of Music" supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.