Letter
The Hallé, Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths
Free Trade Hall
1938

Geoffrey apologises to Ida for not dropping her book "The Little White Bird" back to her, even when he walked it over to house and everything. "You only have to look at me and I forget nearly everything."

He went to see The Changing performance at the Free Trade Hall, [a large choral work I think?]. He recalls the performance being awful but the journey being more so, "I smoked and muttered terrible oaths all the way, but y 8pm I was as warm as toast."

Talks about changes in the worlds of choirs, with Malcolm Sargent working with the choir at the Hallé, even though the weather was keeping most singers away.

He pleads with Ida to be careful with her electric heater after reading about someone who died from electrocution using it in his bathroom.

He advises her on her train journey with her sister and predicts that even without the final scores tabled that Ida has won The Rummy League.

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.