Liverpool sailor's Victorian love letters become 21st Century song

Love letters written from a 19th Century sailor to his sweetheart have been given a new lease of life as a song on a country singer's latest release.

Folk artist Jacqui McDonald from Kendal, wrote the song Dear Elizabeth after reading the letters written by her great-great-great-grandfather Jack to the love of his life, Elizabeth.

A regular on the folk circuit in the 1960s and 1970s, McDonald thought they made a perfect love song.

Singer Nathan Carter thought so too and asked to cover it for his new album.

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