Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 11, 1942
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 11, 1942
Subject
Military life
Description
Howard jokes that he would make a pretty good housewife because he had to sew some buttons on his uniform. He also says Louisville stinks because the girls aren't pretty.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
192-06-11
Contributor
Wayne, Brandon (digitization, transcription, metadata)
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1942-06-11
Coverage
Fort Knox, Kentucky
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Correspondences
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Fort Knox, Kentucky
June 11, 1942
Darling Yve
How are you I just got your box of candy and it is perfect. My buddy likes it too I just went and had a few more pictures taken and maybe they will come out a little better than the last one’s [sic]. By the way what happened to the picture that you were going to send me of yourself. I just finished sewing my buttons on my uniform, some house wife [sic] I’ll make huh. I guess that you would make a better one though for me any ho way I think so. I hope I can go home soon there is a lot of thing [sic] I would like to do and can’t do them from down [sic] here and or in letters. Maybe I get the chance [illegible deletion]
[Page 2]
yet. How’s everybody doing back in Southbridge[?] [A]re there many boys left to take the girls out are to they [sic] have to fight over the boy. I went to Louisville and saw for my self [sic] what kind of place it was and it stinks. The fellows fight over the girls and what looking girls I just give you a little picture of them first there [sic] the tall ones and they so skinny you can’t see them when you look at them sideways then the short ones they are about as fat as they are tall, then the w one [sic] in be tween [sic] they stink. I have’nt [sic] seen a pretty girl since I’ve been down here. [W]ell darling I love you and I could never take any one [sic] out but you the girls don’t even tempt me. I must be in love well darling I haven t [sic] much time left so I [sic] write you again soon and I’ll see you in [sic] august my first chance I get. I love you. Love
Howard
[The following was written in postscript]
I love you xxxxx
June 11, 1942
Darling Yve
How are you I just got your box of candy and it is perfect. My buddy likes it too I just went and had a few more pictures taken and maybe they will come out a little better than the last one’s [sic]. By the way what happened to the picture that you were going to send me of yourself. I just finished sewing my buttons on my uniform, some house wife [sic] I’ll make huh. I guess that you would make a better one though for me any ho way I think so. I hope I can go home soon there is a lot of thing [sic] I would like to do and can’t do them from down [sic] here and or in letters. Maybe I get the chance [illegible deletion]
[Page 2]
yet. How’s everybody doing back in Southbridge[?] [A]re there many boys left to take the girls out are to they [sic] have to fight over the boy. I went to Louisville and saw for my self [sic] what kind of place it was and it stinks. The fellows fight over the girls and what looking girls I just give you a little picture of them first there [sic] the tall ones and they so skinny you can’t see them when you look at them sideways then the short ones they are about as fat as they are tall, then the w one [sic] in be tween [sic] they stink. I have’nt [sic] seen a pretty girl since I’ve been down here. [W]ell darling I love you and I could never take any one [sic] out but you the girls don’t even tempt me. I must be in love well darling I haven t [sic] much time left so I [sic] write you again soon and I’ll see you in [sic] august my first chance I get. I love you. Love
Howard
[The following was written in postscript]
I love you xxxxx
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, June 11, 1942,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 28, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/905.