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Added 29th May 2020 by rncmarchives

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Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths
1941

Geoffrey Griffiths writes to Ida Carroll from his family's bomb shelter (under the stairs or garden perhaps?), "the second warning just as I was sitting down." The worst time for a bomb threat.
He apologises for the pencil, "the ink is lost and everything is foul." However since "there are no guns, so I will continue to write for a few moments before playing cards."

He wants to be with her "but it's 43 hours and 40 minutes away, curse it."

People have been chatting a lot in the house but it's in one ear and out the other. He makes a clever little pun, "now I think of it the sins of our old butcher-man used to provide meaty conversation." His mother is chatting politics, "at least, she says she would like to pull of Hitler's moustache."

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.
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