Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths
Northern School Of Music (NSM)
1939

It's New Year's Day 1939! Griff praises the New Year's Eve they spent together, attending the Watchnight Service at church.
He describes Parrs Wood Road on his way back home, with "sounds of revelry" from a violin and an enormous number of cars parked up - fifteen in total! "There were songsters on Kingsway and others who seem to have been looking upon the wine, or beer."
He arranges to meet her for cards with friends and urges her "you must wear the nice new frock. Wear it at sc[hoo]l and you will have the staff and pupils dotty with jealousy."
He declares "away with 1938, except for the more pleasant memories."

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.