Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths
1941

Geoffrey Griffiths wonders whether Ida Carroll will fall asleep on his shoulder in the cinema. "Surely men's shoulders are rather bony structures, all collar bone and what not, and overrated generally. However if you say so, far, far be it from me to contradict! I have to depend upon the women novelists for a previous viewpoint, and they aren't all agreed about men's shoulders being comfortable."
He mentions Winnie (Myers?) who has pneumonia and was working as a "A.T.S. driver [Auxiliary Territorial Service] and she's just about ready to resign because they have replaced her with a man, and she loves to drive."
Chatting with his friend Harry who he hopes to go into business with by themselves after the war.
He noticed in himself recently "an awakened streak of the sensual" in his mind. "It can be allied with true respect or with something gross, and I think only with the latter does it become evil, unless displeasing in the former." Well this got deep real quick, Griff.
He asks Ida to destroy this letter as "it is awkward and pretty poor."
I'm really glad she didn't.

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.