It was a wartime love story, that concluded with a happy ending.
Sent away to the front in northern France, Stanley Blackstone stayed in touch with his sweetheart, Phoebe Melton, though a series of embroidered postcards.
He survived the First World War and they married in Aylsham in January 1918, before moving to King's Lynn to start a family.
Now, almost a century on, this love story has emerged after the postcards were sent to Phoebe's great-great niece, Sarah Melton, after a collector contacted her online.
'They are beautiful,' said Miss Melton, of Ormesby Road, Coltishall. 'I love reading them, it is a link to people we have never met.'
One of the cards sent to Phoebe's Marsham home reads: 'To my dearest Phoebe, with all my true love, your dearest devoted sweetheart Stanley.'
Phoebe treasured the card for decades, but after her death in 1967 they eventually left the family and fell into unknown hands.
But Miss Melton, whose great grandfather was Phoebe's brother, was sent the cards by Grahame Mason, who bought them nine years ago in Kent.
Mr Mason, from Devon, had contacted her through family-history website Ancestry.com and sent the postcards for free.
'It is fantastic to have them back in our family. We are very grateful,' she said.
'There isn't too much detail about what he was doing but he wrote how much he missed her and how much she was in his thoughts.'
Stanley, born in 1897, and Phoebe, born in 1894 had two daughters but all their direct descendents have died.
Stanley served in the First Royal Army Medical Corps in northern France during the war and worked on the docks on his return before beginning a career with the Electricity Board. He died in 1970.
Their daughter Kathleen did not have children, and daughter Elizabeth had a daughter Ailsa, who emigrated with her mother and husband to Australia in the 1970s when the cards were sold.
Has your family got an interesting story from the First World War? Email sabah.meddings@archant.co.uk
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