Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths
Northern School Of Music (NSM)
1939

Griff updates Ida on his busy working hours, even taking work home. He's listened to the Damnation of Faust on the radio, "and dashed good it was." He's also learned of a new composer, Dorothy Howell. Howell was a student of Tobias Matthay, who was also the teacher of the founder of the Northern School of Music Hilda Collens. He thought her work "very interesting."
He's feeling fit and cheery but "about my private life I feel rather less happy, being more than an trifle deprived of the society of nice girls." Not that he's been spending time in the company of "nasty (or horrid) girls" he assures her. He fancies going for a walk with her but it being nearly midnight he reckons he should probably go to bed instead.
He references a book by H Robinson (not sure who that is), saying that it is so popular that she will have to keep it "at the School until the possibilities of the book have been exhausted by the youngsters of next term, an unofficial library."
His teasing paranoia of her dating policemen rears, "it is such a log time since I saw you last or wrote to you, and the air is so thick with policemen that anything might have happened."
He invites her for a walk or the cinema.

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.