Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 8, 1944

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Title

Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 8, 1944

Subject

Military life, Love letters

Description

He tells Yvette that he has received a letter from her and then tells her how much he loves her.

Creator

Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977

Source

Harvey, Gretchen (donor)

Publisher

Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives

Date

1944-07-08

Contributor

Miller, Christine (digitization, transcription, metadata)

Format

Correspondences

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

1944-07-08

Coverage

Camp Campbell, Tennessee

Document Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Correspondences

Text

[Written on United States Army stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
July 8, 1944
9:30 P.M.
My dearest Little Yve,
I just got a letter from you and its [sic] the one you wrote after you got back from camp and I love you so much and I guess I’ll always be lonely until I get out of this army and back to civillian [sic] life again. Darling I expected justs what you told me about crying and I knew how you felt because I feel the same when I can’t be with you. And darling I had a feeling that I’d get a letter to day [sic] telling me you went

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to see the doctor and I knew just what he’d say. Gee darling its [sic] too bad you’ve got such a green husband that don’t or doesn’t know anything. Well darling I love you any way [sic] and that’s the main Thing. [sic] With out [sic] love what would married life be like? Well darling I got to go now but I wish I could be with you to night [sic] though I get so dark and lonely. So until to morrow [sic] when I write I want you to know that I love you and will be thinking of you all the time. I love you with all my heart darling and good night for now. I love you, as ever,

Howard

[The following was included as a postscript]

P.S. I love you more.

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Citation

Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 8, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 12, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1078.