Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 29, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 29, 1944
Subject
Military life, Love letters
Description
He relates to Yvette that his squad leader is allowing him to write in his room because there is light there. He also tells her that he is very lonely tonight and he is to go on a two week bivouac next week.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-08-29
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
1944-08-29
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Tennessee
Document Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Correspondences
Text
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 29, 1944
9:45 P.M.
Hi Yve.,
What are you doing to-night? Well I’m just about ready to go to bed, but now I’m up in my squad leaders room and writing. You see the light went out and the sgt. being a good egg said I could use the room to write so here I am. Well darling I miss you more every day [sic] and I wish this war will be over soon because I’m really getting sick of this life and to day [sic] I’m more lonely than ever because its [sic] tuesday [sic] and no letter
[Page 2]
but I can look forward to one to morrow [sic] so you see it’s not quite so bad after all. I didn’t do much to day [sic] but I guess its [sic] like the lull before the storm, you see next week we are supposed to go on a two week bivouac. Well darling the sgt. wants to go to sleep so I guess I better close. I love you still more now and I can’t wait until I get home to see you. I love you. I love you. As ever,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I love you just the same Mummy.
Aug. 29, 1944
9:45 P.M.
Hi Yve.,
What are you doing to-night? Well I’m just about ready to go to bed, but now I’m up in my squad leaders room and writing. You see the light went out and the sgt. being a good egg said I could use the room to write so here I am. Well darling I miss you more every day [sic] and I wish this war will be over soon because I’m really getting sick of this life and to day [sic] I’m more lonely than ever because its [sic] tuesday [sic] and no letter
[Page 2]
but I can look forward to one to morrow [sic] so you see it’s not quite so bad after all. I didn’t do much to day [sic] but I guess its [sic] like the lull before the storm, you see next week we are supposed to go on a two week bivouac. Well darling the sgt. wants to go to sleep so I guess I better close. I love you still more now and I can’t wait until I get home to see you. I love you. I love you. As ever,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I love you just the same Mummy.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 29, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 16, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1117.