Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 7, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 7, 1943
Subject
Marriage, Love, Duty
Description
Howard talks about being in the guard house and about a dream he had about her last night.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977)
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-03-07
Contributor
Zimny, Sean (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
1943-03-07
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Correspondences
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Dear Yvette
How is everything with you to-day [sic]? I am now in the guard house. I just came off past and nothing has happened so far, but I’ll have to go back in about a half hour. I still love you and I wish I could see you. I had a dream about you last night. I dreamt was dreaming that we had got married and it was in the summer and we were out on the ocean in a nice sail boat [sic] you know the kind they have in the movies. [I]t sure was some dream. I wonder when I [am] going to get another leave. I hope its [sic] very soon. Darling if you keep
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making rugs you will have enough to put them down all over the place. I won’t have to find a corner to sweep the dust in I’ll just lift the rug and with a little push it will go under all by its self [sic]. Gee I shure [sic] miss you to-day [sic]. It’s Sunday you know and just like any other day in the army except we get up at seven o’clock instead of five. Darling I have to leave now so take care of yourself and remember I still want you. Lots of love
Howard
P.S. I wish we were married.
How is everything with you to-day [sic]? I am now in the guard house. I just came off past and nothing has happened so far, but I’ll have to go back in about a half hour. I still love you and I wish I could see you. I had a dream about you last night. I dreamt was dreaming that we had got married and it was in the summer and we were out on the ocean in a nice sail boat [sic] you know the kind they have in the movies. [I]t sure was some dream. I wonder when I [am] going to get another leave. I hope its [sic] very soon. Darling if you keep
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making rugs you will have enough to put them down all over the place. I won’t have to find a corner to sweep the dust in I’ll just lift the rug and with a little push it will go under all by its self [sic]. Gee I shure [sic] miss you to-day [sic]. It’s Sunday you know and just like any other day in the army except we get up at seven o’clock instead of five. Darling I have to leave now so take care of yourself and remember I still want you. Lots of love
Howard
P.S. I wish we were married.
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Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977) , “Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 7, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 16, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/793.