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In 1999 a fisherman found a loving letter in a bottle from a soldier in ww1 He returned the letter to his widow's daughter, who was still alive. AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Private Thomas Hughes' letter has finally been delivered, not to the beloved wife he addressed it to in England in 1914, but to the young daughter he kissed goodbye as he left for World War I 85 years ago. An emotional Auckland retiree, Emily Crowhurst, was overwhelmed today when her father's last letter, and the bottle that had kept it safe and dry in the English Channel since 1914, was delivered to her by English fisherman Steve Gowan. Gowan, 43, dredged up the green ginger-beer bottle with its screw-on rubber stopper as he fished for cod at the mouth of the Thames River in March. After carefully opening the bottle he found Hughes' letter with a covering note to the finder. "Sir or madam, youth or maid," read an emotional Crowhurst. "Would you kindly forward the enclosed letter and earn ...