Browse Items (1186 total)
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 5, 1942
Fort Knox, Kentucky
Oct 5, 1942
Hi Darling
I got a new job now and it kind of hard at the begining [sic] but it will get better. First I’ll tell you that I couldn’t get mass on the long distance I tried all [S]aturday night and then I tried from 7…
Tags: candy, money, New Job, Post Office
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 2, 1942
Hi Darling:
How are you getting alond [sic] with the pain in your chest. You better do as your mother tells you because she knows best. Oh how I wish I was there with you so I could be the doctor then everything would be allright [sic]. I hope they…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 2, 1942
Hi [D]arling
How’s everything back home? I heard that quite a few people died in that fire in Boston the other night. Was there anybody that I knew? We’re having a big snow storm down here to-day [sic] and is it cold . I woke up this morning and…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 16, 1942
Hi [D]arling:
How’s everything been going since I left? Gee you don’t know how lonesome I am since I left. I felt so empty inside. I didn’t know what you would call it but I just couldn’t eat at all. I never thought love could do that to me. I love…
A snapshot of Howard's letter to Yvette from November 28, 1944
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 11, 1944
Dec. 11, 1944
8:00 P.M.
Dear Yvette,
Well darling it snowed all day to day [sic] and all we got to show for it is just enough to cover the ground. Its [sic] starting to freeze now and its [sic] quite windy now too. I’m just about frozen with out…
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 12, 1944
Dec. 12, 1944
8:30 P.M.
Dear Yvette,
well its [sic] been quite a day with all this and thats [sic] and I’m just about ready to go to bed. First off this morning I got up, then I went to eat and then to work as usual. Everything went along smooth…
Tags: Military
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 13, 1944
Dec. 13, 1944
9:00 P.M.
Darling Yve,
Well here it is the 13th which means we’ve been married six months to-day and it don’t [sic] seem that long at all. I guess its [sic] because we haven’t been together too much of the time. I got a nice letter…
Letter from Howard to Yvette, December 16, 1944
Dec. 16, 1944
9:00 P.M.
Dear Yvette,
Well I got two nice letters from you to day which makes me feel a lot better. If you want me to I’ll go in town and check on that reservation at the hotel. I just can’t wait until you come down though. You…
Featured Item
Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910
Postcard of Nurse Axness and the first patients, probably ailed by scarlet fever, at the Concordia College hospital, circa 1910