A letter has (finally) arrived at its destination, even though more than a century has passed since it was sent.
The letter, sent in February 1916, arrived at the intended address in Hamlet Road, south London.
Whoever received it could only marvel.
“We saw the year was 16, and we thought it was 2016,” Finlay Glen told CNN this Thursday, the 16th.
Glen told the same outlet that the letter arrived at the property several years ago, but only recently took it to the local history society for a more detailed analysis.
The envelope is stamped with the head of King George V and was sent during the First World War more than a decade before Queen Elizabeth II was born.
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“When we realized it was very old, we thought it was okay to open the letter,” the man said. Please note that under the Postal Services Act 2000 it is a criminal offense to open post that is not addressed to you.
After determining that the letter might be of historical interest, it was given to the Norwood Review, a local quarterly magazine.
“As a local historian, I was both surprised and delighted to receive the details of the letter,” Stephen Oxford, the magazine’s editor, said in a statement.
The letter was addressed to “my dear Katie” who, according to Oxford, was the wife of local tycoon Oswald Marsh.
It was written by Christabel Mennel, daughter of tea merchant Henry Tuke Mennel, when her family were holidaying in Bath in the west of England.
In the letter, Mennel writes: “I am very unhappy here, with a very bad cold.”
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