World War II love letter delivered 68 years later

A New York woman said she found the family of the intended recipient of a World War II love letter that arrived at her address 68 years after it was mailed.

Abbi Jacobson, 27, said she returned from a two-week trip in February to discover her mail included a faded letter sent in November 1944 from Lt. Joseph Matthews, who was stationed in North Carolina at the time, to his wife, Mrs. J.O Matthews, who was living at Jacobson’s address during World War II, the New York Post reported .

Jacobson said she couldn’t resist reading the letter, which was full of proclamations of love and lamentations about being separated.”

The letter is so intimate it’s such a cool, rare thing,” Jacobson said. “It must have been a really intense time for them. There were some romantic lines.” Jacobson said she and a friend set up a website, “The Lost Letter Project,” in an attempt to find the couple.The website yielded results on Wednesday when she was contacted by Amala Maeve Matthews, who said she was the couple’s second daughter.”This is amazing! The handwriting is unquestionably our father’s and all the pieces make sense.

The recipient of the letter, his first wife, had passed away, unfortunately. Joe passed away in 1999,” Matthews wrote. Matthews told Jacobson her oldest sibling lives in New York and would be happy to receive the letter.

- New York Post