Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths
1941

Griff apologises to Ida for the summer storm that crashed their date and earned them a scolding from her sister Elsa. He likewise scolds the "many thousands of people who seemed to be about were probably lured out by the pleasant weather before nine o'clock, the idiots." He's not a huge fan of the heat, reckons he'll be sighing for colder weather soon instead of avoiding the veranda where he feels like "the proverbial cat on hot bricks." (Any Tennessee Williams fans out there?)
He apologises and reassures her that as he is "a reticent Englishman I don't tell you one half of the nice things I ought to do, but I'll never talk about the inside of motor car engines," even if he knew anything about them.
He thinks that if work lets out early he'll straight to bed, or play his cello Boris or listen to the radio.

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.