Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 7, 1945
Dublin Core
Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 7, 1945
Description
Howard tells Yvette not to worry if she doesn’t hear from him for a while because he’ll be too busy to write, and he won’t have time to collect mail so anything she sends will probably be sent back. He also talks about an odd experience he had with an older woman.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-07-07
Contributor
Tommerdahl, Maria (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
1945-07-07
Document Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Correspondences
Text
Laufen
July 7, 1945
Dearest darling Wife,
Don’t worry darling if you don’t hear from me for a while because I won’t be able to write for a while because we will be moving and they won’t collect the mail there for [sic] I’ll travel as fast as the mail will. There’s a deadline on outgoing mail tonight at twelve and, [illegible] one more mail delivery before we get in the cattle cars and leave for France. I might be able to write from there seeing we [spend?]
[Page 2]
a few days there but then on the boat it won’t even be worth writing because they won’t go until after I get in the states and I’ll probably be home before the letters. Darling if I don’t get a chance to write anymore I’ll call as soon as I can reach a telephone. Well to day [sic] I had a funny experience. I was taking a bath [illegible deletion] and the woman that owns the house [walked?] in on me while I was in the tub. There was no lock on the door so I couldn’t prevent it. The woman is as old thou [sic] and she didn’t seem to be too embarrassed.
[Page 3]
(2) [This is written in the center of the top of the page.] Well after that everything went along smoothly until I put on all clean clothes that I just pressed and was taking a little walk for some fresh air when we had a cloud-burst and of course I got wet and my clean uniform look [sic] like it never had a press job. Now I’m back in the house writing and I haven’t too much time to make the deadline but you’ll tell my folks about my return and if they send my mail back to you don’t worry its [sic] just
[Page 4]
because I won’t be any place long enough to collect [them?]. I know its [sic] going to be darn lonesome not getting any mail from you but it can’t be helped. I can go a few weeks with out [sic] mail to get home. Well darling I guess that [sic] about all for now. I love you and need you so very much and it will be so good to see you again but I got to mail this now so it get [sic] on the way. Good night [sic] darling and please keep loving me. I love you so very very much. Your Lonesome husband,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you most.
July 7, 1945
Dearest darling Wife,
Don’t worry darling if you don’t hear from me for a while because I won’t be able to write for a while because we will be moving and they won’t collect the mail there for [sic] I’ll travel as fast as the mail will. There’s a deadline on outgoing mail tonight at twelve and, [illegible] one more mail delivery before we get in the cattle cars and leave for France. I might be able to write from there seeing we [spend?]
[Page 2]
a few days there but then on the boat it won’t even be worth writing because they won’t go until after I get in the states and I’ll probably be home before the letters. Darling if I don’t get a chance to write anymore I’ll call as soon as I can reach a telephone. Well to day [sic] I had a funny experience. I was taking a bath [illegible deletion] and the woman that owns the house [walked?] in on me while I was in the tub. There was no lock on the door so I couldn’t prevent it. The woman is as old thou [sic] and she didn’t seem to be too embarrassed.
[Page 3]
(2) [This is written in the center of the top of the page.] Well after that everything went along smoothly until I put on all clean clothes that I just pressed and was taking a little walk for some fresh air when we had a cloud-burst and of course I got wet and my clean uniform look [sic] like it never had a press job. Now I’m back in the house writing and I haven’t too much time to make the deadline but you’ll tell my folks about my return and if they send my mail back to you don’t worry its [sic] just
[Page 4]
because I won’t be any place long enough to collect [them?]. I know its [sic] going to be darn lonesome not getting any mail from you but it can’t be helped. I can go a few weeks with out [sic] mail to get home. Well darling I guess that [sic] about all for now. I love you and need you so very much and it will be so good to see you again but I got to mail this now so it get [sic] on the way. Good night [sic] darling and please keep loving me. I love you so very very much. Your Lonesome husband,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. I love you most.
Embed
Copy the code below into your web page
Collection
Citation
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 7, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1041.