Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 25, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 25, 1943
Subject
Military Life, Christmas
Description
Howard told Yvette that he is spending Christmas at the service club and then told her a story about his friend Ted.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-12-25
Contributor
Probst, Jacob (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
1943-12-25
Coverage
Camp Campbell, KY
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Original Format
Correspondences
Text
Camp Campbell, Ky. [Kentucky]
Dec. 25, 1943
Hi Yve:
How’s everything to-day [sic]? I’m having a swell time to-day [sic] over here in the service club, they hand out cigarettes, candy and nuts. You know this is the first day I’ve been out of bed since the twentieth and it feels sort of good. It’s only about one thirty and we have to wait until three to eat that wonderful turkey dinner so I’ll let you know what it taste [sic] like after I eat it. I got a card from Evelyn and the family and also two letters from you to day [sic] so I feel pretty good.
[page 2]
I don’t want you to think I changed in in my new parker so I’ll explain how I’m writing in the blue to day [sic] instead of black. You see when I came over to the club I forgot to bring my pen so I barrowed [sic] this from a soldier’s wife of course the solder is sitting right next to her. Write and tell me how everything goes christmas back home, we would of eaten both places. I’ll probably go back to the bunk after dinner and that will end my beautiful christmas but here was one thing it almost snowed
[page 3]
here last night. Ted went to town to take on a little christmas cheer and coming back it had rained and made the roads just one big sheet of ice and he said it was terrible driving. Well honey I haven’t much more that I can say at the present so I guess I [sic] close now and I write you after dinner if nothing happens. Darling I wish I could see you but I guess you I’ll have to stay [illegible deletion] here for a little white yet well I guess I’ll close this time for good well. Love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
I love you
Dec. 25, 1943
Hi Yve:
How’s everything to-day [sic]? I’m having a swell time to-day [sic] over here in the service club, they hand out cigarettes, candy and nuts. You know this is the first day I’ve been out of bed since the twentieth and it feels sort of good. It’s only about one thirty and we have to wait until three to eat that wonderful turkey dinner so I’ll let you know what it taste [sic] like after I eat it. I got a card from Evelyn and the family and also two letters from you to day [sic] so I feel pretty good.
[page 2]
I don’t want you to think I changed in in my new parker so I’ll explain how I’m writing in the blue to day [sic] instead of black. You see when I came over to the club I forgot to bring my pen so I barrowed [sic] this from a soldier’s wife of course the solder is sitting right next to her. Write and tell me how everything goes christmas back home, we would of eaten both places. I’ll probably go back to the bunk after dinner and that will end my beautiful christmas but here was one thing it almost snowed
[page 3]
here last night. Ted went to town to take on a little christmas cheer and coming back it had rained and made the roads just one big sheet of ice and he said it was terrible driving. Well honey I haven’t much more that I can say at the present so I guess I [sic] close now and I write you after dinner if nothing happens. Darling I wish I could see you but I guess you I’ll have to stay [illegible deletion] here for a little white yet well I guess I’ll close this time for good well. Love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
I love you
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 25, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 14, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1180.