Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths
1940

Geoffrey Griffiths frets over the "crushing nuisance" of anyone putting bombs near his beloved Ida Carroll. He admits that "it's probably as well I didn't know where they were - if I had, I should have thrown about ten fits." However it tickled him an old chap called Gill has had part of his roof damaged.
When the bombs landed near him "it made the usual row coming down and we all woke from forty winks and dived under the table! Optimism!"
Importantly, he's run out of library books (I sympathise - it's a terrible circumstance), and their time together is being hampered by a Mrs. A. who keeps falling down and needs help. "Even I dreamt about violence to er… 'old bean'."
In a post script he relates that shopping was a failure, that there were plenty of eggs but a queue "of at least 150 grim-looking ladies."

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.