Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths
1941

Geoffrey Griffiths wonders if he saw Ida's sister Elsa in the ginnel when he was leaving Ida's house. "It may have been Elsa, complete with bike, though the steel hat looked wrong somehow."
He admits to being jealous in a dream in which he and Ida met a chap at a railway station with a handsome moustache who kissed Ida on both cheeks. Any dream readers out there want to have a go at breaking the symbolism down?
A wartime tragedy is the shortage of "the magic cake" at Ashton market. The letter slips into what must be strange code here as I have no idea at all about the meaning of "so would underneath the mac do for the time being, most beautiful, instead of the pocket?" What on Earth is he referring to??

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.