Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths
1939

"There are about four ways to go to Stockport," Griff tells Ida and then describes his favoured ones. He likes working in Stockport offices best as "there is a coal fire and all the neighbours are pleasant and it is the custom to pay and to receive visits."
He'll wait about two hours at their usual meeting spot in Didsbury on the hope that she can slip away and see him.
He jokes that when he was younger his "behaviour has been until quite recently distinctly Olde Worlde, the mildest of mild Victorianism," and so he would hope that he is no longer quite so shy, as "a man can't stay in the polite nineties." Well quite.

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.