Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths
Northern School Of Music (NSM)
1940

In this letter Griff laments with Ida how the war gets in the way of a nice cup of tea, "When you are trying for a nice cup of tea you will have to unhook the receiver! But it is really a compliment that they should ring the house of Carroll about the shelter."
He tells her of his dreams he's had. "Such nice dreams last night, darling. My head had hardly hit the pillow before I was almost quite sure that we were strolling around and about Marie Louise Gardens, me with arms right round you! But there was just one horrid dream - I appeared to be before the local committee in the bar parlour of the G&D and they wanted me to fire-spot on all Tuesdays, and I was telling them quite how impossible that would be - telling them everything except the absolute truth!" Tuesdays were when Griff and Ida met up in the evening for dates so to be tethered to his Auxiliary Fire Service work would have been terrible!
He looks forward to meeting her on Saturday and hearing all about the Matthay School of Music.

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.