Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths
1941

It's 11:15pm and Geoffrey Griffiths wonders that Ida Carroll will be "on the old beat, or in the old shelter" about now - possibly on her air Raid Precaution patrol as local warden.
WW2 is getting in the way of bath time: "If that cad Hitler messes about until five tomorrow morning, I shall have a bath at 5:05. The ablutions were "dodged" almost cheerfully on our other raid nights (they were decidedly chillier than tonight) but now it is becoming no joke!"
He misses her and "this sitting up on duty business is bad all round; it keeps us apart sometimes, makes us (or me) tired and sleepy and encourages me to smoke too much."

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.