After 100 years, the letter reached the right place, people were blown away by seeing the envelope opened, interesting history was revealed

Letter of 1916: This letter was written in 1916, which can now reach the correct address. In 1916, this letter was written from the city of Bath, England. Seeing this letter, people living at that address were also shocked.

100 years too late: Just imagine that in the era of SMS, a letter reaches your home and that too 100 years old, then what will be your reaction? This is not a question asked like this, but it has actually happened. Actually, a letter suddenly arrived in a house in London, England. This letter was written in 1916, which can now reach the correct address. In 1916, this letter was written from the city of Bath, England. Seeing this letter, people living at that address were also shocked.

Letter written in 1916

The letter has a stamp of Penny George V, which is believed to have been written at the time of The First World War. Theater director Finlay Glen told a media that initially he thought it would be a letter written in 2016, because it was written only 16 years, but he has noticed that the letter has a king stamp instead of queen, which he understood that it was not of 2016 but of 1916.

This letter reached his address a few years ago, but it took Glen some time to decode its history, after which he handed over this letter to the Local History Organization, so that further information could be obtained.

Interesting history of letters

According to Stephen Oxford, editor of the local history magazine The Norwood Review, this letter was written to someone Katie Marsh. She was married to a stamp dealer named Oswald Marsh. Marsh's friend Christabel Mennell wrote this letter to him, who lived in Bath. He wrote, 'I need your help. I feel ashamed of myself since what I did that day. I am in a very bad situation in the severe winter here.

According to Oxford, the letter may have been lost in a post office at that time, which may have been found now during renovation and they sent it to the correct address.

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It is being told that whoever has written this letter is also believed to be the daughter of a rich tea merchant of that era. At that time, both Upper Norwood and Crystal Palace used to be very posh, where upper middle class people lived. After knowing the interesting history related to this letter, Glen is also happy with his decision to hand it over to the organization.