Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths, St James Church Choir at Birch-in-Rusholme
1940

Griff tells Ida that he escorted a contralto home after choir practice at Birch Church, "Miss Klatovsky!! She is staying with relations somewhere off Parsonage Road and doesn't enjoy these blackout nights."
A choir social is being planned and he asks "could you provide me with an alibi for that date", thick as thieves.
If he can't see her for a walk then "I shall stay at home and play Boris all night; that may be a good thing on the surface but it would be trying to the nerves of the Old Folk."

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.