Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 7, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 7, 1944
Subject
Military life, Love letters
Description
Howard tells Yvette about his return to Camp Campbell.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-07-07
Contributor
Miller, Christine (digitization, transcription, metadata)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1944-07-07
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Tennessee
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Original Format
Correspondences
Text
[Written on United States Army stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
July 7, 1944
My darling wife,
Just a few lines to let you know I’m back at camp campbell [sic] again and that I so [sic] happy because I had three letters waiting for me. You don’t know what a letter from you does to me, and I can’t explain it to you but it makes me feel so darn good. I [sic] try to answer one or two of them to morrow [sic] but to [sic] so darn tired after wheeling
[Page 2]
that truck 325 miles to day [sic] so thats [sic] why I’m going to bed, but I couldn’t sleep without writing so even though its [sic] short I love you very much. I wish I could be with you to night [sic] I feel lonely with out [sic] you. I love you, I love you, I love you and I love you more than that but I got to go to bed now so mummy until to morrow, [sic] keep loving me. Your loving husband,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I Love you
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
July 7, 1944
My darling wife,
Just a few lines to let you know I’m back at camp campbell [sic] again and that I so [sic] happy because I had three letters waiting for me. You don’t know what a letter from you does to me, and I can’t explain it to you but it makes me feel so darn good. I [sic] try to answer one or two of them to morrow [sic] but to [sic] so darn tired after wheeling
[Page 2]
that truck 325 miles to day [sic] so thats [sic] why I’m going to bed, but I couldn’t sleep without writing so even though its [sic] short I love you very much. I wish I could be with you to night [sic] I feel lonely with out [sic] you. I love you, I love you, I love you and I love you more than that but I got to go to bed now so mummy until to morrow, [sic] keep loving me. Your loving husband,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I Love you
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 7, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 17, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1073.