信的落款日期是1924年, 差不多写于60年前.用英语怎么说？

信的落款日期是1924年, 差不多写于60年前.

Then I saw the dateline -- 1924. The letter had been written almost sixty years earlier.

then

adv. 那时，然后，那么，话说回来；adj. 当时的，那时的；

例句
Liz adjusted her mirror and then edged the car out of its parking bay.
莉兹调了调后视镜，将车子挪出了停车位。

saw

n. 锯，谚语，格言；vt.& vi. 往复移动，锯成，用锯，拉锯；v. 看见（ see的过去式），观看，领会，考虑；

例句
...expensive make-up that we saw being advertised by a beautiful model...
我们所见的由一位漂亮模特代言的昂贵化妆品

the

art. 指已提到的人（物），指说话人与听者已知的人（物），用于独一无二的事物前，与形容词最高级和序数词连用；

例句
He did have a real knowledge of the country...
他对该国的确知之甚多。

dateline

n. 国际日期变更线，日界线，日期栏；

例句
Then I saw the dateline -- 1924. The letter had been written almost sixty years earlier.
信的落款日期是1924年, 差不多写于60年前.

letter

n. 信，证书，许可证，字母，文字，字面意义；vt. 用字母标明，写字母于，加标题；vi. 写印刷体字母；

例句
Naylor acknowledged, in a letter to the judge, that he was a drug addict...
内勒在给法官的信中承认自己吸毒。

had

v. 有（ have的过去式和过去分词 ），（亲属关系中）接受，拿，买到；

例句
He claimed that his parents had abandoned him...
他声称父母遗弃了他。

been

v. 用来表示某人或某物即主语本身，用来表示某人或某物属于某一群体或有某种性质（ be的过去分词 ），在，存在，不受干扰，去过了，be的过去分词；

例句
Have you been able to have any kind of contact?...
你联系上了吗？

written

adj. 书面的，写成文字的，明显受到…影响，（感情）全挂在脸上；v. 写( write的过去分词)，写信；

例句
...a written declaration by someone, authorizing another person to act as his agent.
一份某人授权他人为其代理人的书面申明

almost

adv. 几乎，差不多，将近，快要，近乎；

例句
Despite considerable pain she has been getting out and about almost as normal...
尽管还很痛，她已经基本上行动如常。

sixty

num. 六十；

例句
Entire roast chickens were sixty cents apiece.
烤全鸡每只60美分。

years

n. 年( year的名词复数 )，年纪，一年的期间，某年级的学生；

例句
His wife was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for aiding and abetting him...
他的妻子作为他的从犯被判入狱7年。

earlier

adj. 早期的，初期的；adv. 早期（地），初期（地）；

例句
The author has abstracted poems from earlier books.
作者从以前的书中摘取了一些诗作。