Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 13, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 13, 1944
Subject
Military life, Love letters
Description
Howard tells Yvette that they have now been married for a month and that he has a night assignment until 2 in the morning. He also says that he was pretty busy today and that he loves and misses her very much.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-07-13
Contributor
Miller, Christine (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
1944-07-13
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Tennessee
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Original Format
Correspondences
Text
[Written on United States Army stationery with the following quote from the Bible in the top left corner]
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.” 1 Peter 3:18
July 13, 1944
3:30 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
Well here it is a month now that we’ve been married and I still love you but to day [sic] I am not dressed up in my o.d’s. infact I [am] just about ready to go out on a night problem which will last from 6:30 til 2:00 AM so I just got [sic] a little time to write a few lines. Well darling I suppose you know I love you
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very much but in case you forget darling “I love you”. We didn’t do much to day [sic] but it was all spread out so we didn’t have very much time a [sic] once. Well any way [sic] we didn’t have time to write during the day. Well darling I [have] got to go eat chow now and when I get back to the barracks to morrow [sic] night (I hope) I’ll write you a nice long letter. I love you very much and I miss you more + more every day [sic] and I want to see you so very much so until to morrow [sic] I love you darling. As ever,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I love you more.
[The following was a quotation typed on the bottom of the stationery]
“But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us… Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved”-- Romans 5:8, Acts 16:31
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.” 1 Peter 3:18
July 13, 1944
3:30 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
Well here it is a month now that we’ve been married and I still love you but to day [sic] I am not dressed up in my o.d’s. infact I [am] just about ready to go out on a night problem which will last from 6:30 til 2:00 AM so I just got [sic] a little time to write a few lines. Well darling I suppose you know I love you
[Page 2]
very much but in case you forget darling “I love you”. We didn’t do much to day [sic] but it was all spread out so we didn’t have very much time a [sic] once. Well any way [sic] we didn’t have time to write during the day. Well darling I [have] got to go eat chow now and when I get back to the barracks to morrow [sic] night (I hope) I’ll write you a nice long letter. I love you very much and I miss you more + more every day [sic] and I want to see you so very much so until to morrow [sic] I love you darling. As ever,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I love you more.
[The following was a quotation typed on the bottom of the stationery]
“But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us… Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved”-- Romans 5:8, Acts 16:31
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 13, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1083.