The London Letters of a former Meltham woman are back home.
Geoff Smith found a suitcase packed with letters, leaflets and tickets belonging to the late Mary Hughes Preston in a house in London.
Now, after an appeal in the Examiner, he has reunited her family with the memories.
Mr Smith travelled 200 miles to hand over the letters to Mrs Jayne Preston, of Meltham, one of Mary’s distant relatives.
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Many members of the family now plan to go through the material and found out more about their relative.
Mrs Preston said: “Geoff came a long way to bring the letters to us and we had a lovely day.
“Several members of the family have asked if they can see them so they will be passed around”.
Mary, who died in 1983 in London at the age of 58, was a high-ranking civil servant working for the government. She had a really good job and wrote speeches for government ministers.
The letters were in a suitcase uncovered in a house renovation. There were hundreds of letters, leaflets, receipts and tickets from Miss Preston to and from her family.
Mr Smith, of Norbury, in south London, discovered the case containing hundreds of letters in an attic of a house he was working on in Beech Road, London.
