Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths, Hilda Collens
1947

Griff writes to Ida while she's on holiday in Scotland with its bad weather. He thinks her mother should go to the doctor's to get her leg checked "but I don't suppose she will." No probably not.
"Miss Collens made her one and only appearance today and she seemed brighter than on Saturday." He went to lunch with her at the plaza but "there was scarcely a sweet left and they'd no coffee and they injured H.C.'s feelings by bringing her tea with sugar in it and they changed that but brought the next concoction so milky that she left half of it." Uh oh.
Griff is enjoying the Boot's Library subscription. So this was a lending library that Boots the chemist operated prior to the Public Libraries and Museum Act of 1964, which required local councils to provide free public libraries to its constituents.
He's going to the cricket at Old Trafford if it's dry enough to pay homage to cricketer Cyril Washbrook.

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.