Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths
1941

Here Geoffrey Griffiths describes to his "angel precious darling" Ida Carroll of the Northern School of Music what progress he has made (since writing his previous letter that same day!) in exploring possible writing courses. It seems that he fancies being a writer, a novelist even, although he admits starting with short stories seems sensible. He has looked at the London School of Journalism and the offers from the Regent Institute but has not reached a conclusion yet. He proposes an idea to her: "What do you say to our "splitting" a course in journalism, in your name but using No.37 as an "accommodation" address - to preserve secrecy?" To hide their relationship or the fact that they're going halvsies in a course? Who knows!

37 could have been Griff's address - it wasn't that of the NSM or of Ida Carroll, so he could be asking for the papers to be sent here.

He describes himself as "the devout slave to fiction and should for the time being be content to read very closely the books I now have."

From one book lover to another, I can almost guarantee that didn't happen.

He also encloses notes from M. Joseph's "Complete Writing For Profit" about freelance work which made its way to the archive in the jumble of letters so we're chuffed to be able to add it here as well.

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.