Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths
1941

Griff seems to have the flu, poor chap. "Illness and sorrow can be levellers of temper," and he muses on "the countless homes throughout the world, the domestic labours of differing skill and after my adventures of this morning, the possible trials of shopping."

He talks at length of his pipe and of cigarettes.

But he's enjoying his confinement, "the pursuit of literature, listening to suitable music, the playing, or attempted playing, of the cello for examples. Home food is enjoyable and there are good cigarettes and coffee."

Between his mother's company and Boris (the cello?), "about all I have to resent is the inability to see you."

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.