A SERIES of letters written by a Herefordshireborn woman during her time in the Burmese jungle in the 1920s have been re-discovered by her daughter.
Muriel Bowden, known as Mully, wrote weekly letters to her mother about her life there, including how she lived at the beginning of the end of an empire.
Her mother, Alice Britten, suffered from rheumatism and lived in Herefordshire. The letters, which were in three old account books, were found by her daughter Ann.
Muriel, born in Tupsley in 1892, lived in Burma due to her husband Herbert (known as Freddie) being employed by the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation.
She faced a hostile country that was ruled by the British Indian Empire but she was heartened to hear what was happening in Hereford and had the Hereford Times delivered to her by river.
Her family links to Herefordshire can be traced back to the 1780s and she still has a cousin who lives in Eardisland.
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