Letter Reaches London Address More Than 100 Years After Being Posted

Research revealed that the letter was sent in the middle of World War I and was addressed to Katie Marsh, who was married to stamp dealer Oswald Marsh.

A letter that was posted more than a century ago for a London address has finally been delivered to its destination. The letter was mailed from Bath, United Kingdom but got lost in the mail in 1916. After the correspondence reached the address in Hamlet Road, south London, the family living there was completely surprised on learning that the letter was written 100 years ago, reported CNN.

The envelope bore the stamp of King George V and was dropped through the letterbox of theatre director Finlay Glen’s south London flat in 2021.

"We noticed that the year on it was '16. So, we thought it was 2016. Then we noticed that the stamp was a King rather than a Queen, so we felt that it couldn't have been 2016," Glen said to the media outlet.

Though Glen had received the letter a couple of years ago, he recently gave it to a local historical organisation to research on it further.

Research revealed that the letter was sent in the middle of World War I and was addressed to Katie Marsh, who was married to stamp dealer Oswald Marsh. Katie's friend  Christabel Mennell had written the letter to her while she was on a vacation in Bath, said Stephen Oxford, the editor of The Norwood Review, a local quarterly history magazine, reported CNN.

"As a local historian I was amazed and delighted to have the details of the letter passed to me," said Stephen in a release.

It is still not clear how the letter had got lost and arrived at Glen’s flat after so many years.

"We appreciate that people will be intrigued by the history of this letter from 1916, but have no further information on what might have happened," said the Royal Mail spokesperson to CNN.