Letter
Ida Carroll, Geoffrey Griffiths
Northern School Of Music (NSM)
1938

Griff resents that Ida can't see him for a week and hopes to dissuade her from her busy schedule. They need to see each other, he argues, for medicinal purposes - a joint on his pinkie finger of his left hand has gone numb (from playing the cello) and he reckons that a prescription of hand-holding will be just the thing to get the blood flowing again.
He hopes they can meet for a walk but will shy away from seeing friends as "domestic areas with more than two persons present fill me with alarm for another ten days at least."
He couldn't hear when the doctor was at the door over his cello scales, just occasionally calls and knocks in intervals which he didn't pay much mind and thought was rather amusing.
His health is righting, with just a nosebleed so far, and he's fit to be back working.
He rates a concert possibly by the Matthay School of Music and relays a story about Warnoer Bros vs. a double bass.

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.