Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths, St James Church Choir at Birch-in-Rusholme
1941

Griff writes to Ida, "if I had the backbone of a self-respecting sardine I should have sat down on Moseley Rd, Fall., Manchester, M14 and howled until you consented to continue by bus. It would have meant a most unhappy curtailment of a very pleasant walk (for me) but you would have been much more dry." However it meant that "the raindrops gleamed on your pretty little face in a fascinating way."
Birch Church choir has hone down in some esteem, he reports, but he doesn't know if he could leave it wholly.
She has said that "there aren't any men with shaky nerves, but don't you believe it. Why, for one thing I do think, from my own simple observation of life, that women on the whole stand physical pain far better than most men. or they do so more silently." Abso-bloody-lutely.
He's trying to convince his parents to take a holiday but they won't go anywhere.

Ref: CARROLL/IGC/3 GG
With thanks to the Ida Carroll Trust
Date is unknown.

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