Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 29, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 29, 1944
Subject
Military life, Love letters
Description
Howard tells Yvette that he is making the arrangements for her to come down to visit him and he is getting very lonely.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-07-29
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
1944-07-29
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Tennessee
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Original Format
Correspondences
Text
[Written on United States Army stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
July 29, 1944
10:00 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
Well how’s my little darling to night? [sic] I love you more and more every day and I’m so lonely now I could go over the hill (AWOL) but I guess I won’t seeing that your [sic] coming down to see me soon. Darling about that finger of mine its [sic] tan now and it don’t [sic] look like I just got married but I feel like it was only yesterday that we got married. Well I hope this war is over pretty soon. I [am] getting sick of living a single life and the army was never meant for a guy like me anyway.
[Page 2]
Yve now you know what I mean when I say when you see Miss Conners cross the street and save a lot of time. She’s a little nutty but harmless as you probably know but she can talk you deaf. Well darling I’ll be able to let you know to-morrow [sic] when to come I love you very much darling and I think of you all the time. I’m very sleepy now so I guess I [‘ll] turn in. I hope I have a nice dream about you to-night [sic] but if I don’t remember I love you. As ever,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
(P.S. I love you more)
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
July 29, 1944
10:00 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
Well how’s my little darling to night? [sic] I love you more and more every day and I’m so lonely now I could go over the hill (AWOL) but I guess I won’t seeing that your [sic] coming down to see me soon. Darling about that finger of mine its [sic] tan now and it don’t [sic] look like I just got married but I feel like it was only yesterday that we got married. Well I hope this war is over pretty soon. I [am] getting sick of living a single life and the army was never meant for a guy like me anyway.
[Page 2]
Yve now you know what I mean when I say when you see Miss Conners cross the street and save a lot of time. She’s a little nutty but harmless as you probably know but she can talk you deaf. Well darling I’ll be able to let you know to-morrow [sic] when to come I love you very much darling and I think of you all the time. I’m very sleepy now so I guess I [‘ll] turn in. I hope I have a nice dream about you to-night [sic] but if I don’t remember I love you. As ever,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
(P.S. I love you more)
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 29, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1098.