Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths, St James Church Choir at Birch-in-Rusholme
1938

A very formal start to a letter from Griff to Ida congratulating her on her victory with the Birch Rummy League.
"oF c-8rse 6heRE (s s) Meth(nG oN the bacK OF %h9s% YOu d-Nt th9nK i am g-Ing t- wast4 tjIs dO Ypu??"
And so begins his usual letter. He discusses his typewriter experiments resulting in multiple copies of this letter as "the original shows all the defects of the typewriter - the machine defects for of course I - the typist - have none (?)"
He writes about the book he's reading and ventures into cinema options and reports his opinions on radio broadcasts of concerts.
He looks forward "to seeing you after a long lapse of about 45 hours, roughly 2,700 minutes, or 162,000 seconds."

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.