Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 1, 1945
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 1, 1945
Subject
Military Life
Description
Howard finally got the letters from Yvette in France, and he talks about how cheap everything in France is in comparison to the amount of money he gets paid in the military
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-03-01
Contributor
Wibel, Maret (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
France
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Correspondences
Text
March 1, 1945
7:30 P.M.
Dearest darling wife + no kids,
Well darling I feel good to-day [loss] cause I got about seven letters from you and one from mom. The last letter I got from you was dated the 11th of Feb. and I liked that one the best. I got that letter with the one from Rays wife Maxine in it too and I’m going to send it back with this letter. I guess Junior is already here by the letter because she says something about the 24th of feb. and here it is the first of march [sic]. Well darling I just finished washing my head and I feel much better now. I’m sitting here trying to write and watch a poker
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game. Last night the [pay] came and I guess I won’t go broke buying stuff because I bought all I could last night and all I spent was forty francs which is about 80 cents. I even bought cigars. I still think they should pay us in american money. These francs really mix you up, its [sic] not the valuation of them it [sic] the different size bill that don’t fit the bill fold. Well darling so much for that. I guess it will be quite sometime before I get back to the states but if you can wait I can. I love you darling and your letters really do something to me. Good night for now darling and remember I’ll always love you. As Ever
Howard
[There is an envelope attached to this letter]
7:30 P.M.
Dearest darling wife + no kids,
Well darling I feel good to-day [loss] cause I got about seven letters from you and one from mom. The last letter I got from you was dated the 11th of Feb. and I liked that one the best. I got that letter with the one from Rays wife Maxine in it too and I’m going to send it back with this letter. I guess Junior is already here by the letter because she says something about the 24th of feb. and here it is the first of march [sic]. Well darling I just finished washing my head and I feel much better now. I’m sitting here trying to write and watch a poker
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game. Last night the [pay] came and I guess I won’t go broke buying stuff because I bought all I could last night and all I spent was forty francs which is about 80 cents. I even bought cigars. I still think they should pay us in american money. These francs really mix you up, its [sic] not the valuation of them it [sic] the different size bill that don’t fit the bill fold. Well darling so much for that. I guess it will be quite sometime before I get back to the states but if you can wait I can. I love you darling and your letters really do something to me. Good night for now darling and remember I’ll always love you. As Ever
Howard
[There is an envelope attached to this letter]
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 1, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 19, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/798.