A woman will be coming to the island next month to collect a letter that she wrote to her late husband — more than ten years after it was written.

Thea Stone wrote a love letter to her late husband, Steve Nelson, who suddenly died in 2008.

It was dated April 3, 2013, the day after what would have been Mr Nelson’s 69th birthday.

A section of it reads: “At this five-year mark, I have begun to etch out new routines, new ways to live, but I would still trade them for an opportunity to be with you.”

Ms Stone, who then lived in Washington State, placed both the original letter and a copy, along with some of Mr Nelson’s ashes, into two bottles and a family friend dumped them into the ocean.

One bottle was dropped in the Caribbean sea and the other one near Kuwait.

The letter also had Ms Stone’s contact details, so whoever found the bottle could reach out to her.

She said: “The letter was written such a long time ago and I had forgotten about it.”

Katie Brassington found one bottle about three weeks ago while walking her dog near Munro Beach cottages in Southampton.

The bottle was still sealed and its contents were intact.

When Ms Stone, who now lives in Florida, first got the call that the bottle had been found, she did not know whether to believe it.

She said: “[Ms Brassington and I] have been in constant contact since she first reached out and my friend and I will soon be going to Bermuda to collect the bottle and ashes.”