Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 30, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 30, 1944
Subject
Military life, Love letters
Description
He tells Yvette that he got a room for her and tells her how to get to the hotel. He also tells her he is hopeful that he will get a pass to have a few days off.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-07-30
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
1944-07-30
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Tennessee
Document Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Correspondences
Text
[Written on United States Army stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
July 30, 1944
8:00 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
Well darling I just got back from town and I got a room for the eighth of Aug. so if you want to come now its [sic] up to you. As for me I want you. Darling if you come you’ll have to get a train ticket for Clarksville, Tenn. and plan to take a train to so you’ll get here around noon Tuesday the 8th so I can get in a [sic] meet you because we’ll have to go from Clarksville to Hopkinsville Kentucky because thats [sic] where I got the room. The hotel looks pretty clean and I don’t know just what you’ll think of it
[Page 2]
but if you don’t like it you can look for a place after your [sic] here. I think there [sic] going to give me a pass so keep your fingers cross[ed]. Ray’s wife is coming down the 9th and she’s staying in the same hotel. Well darling let me know what you decide to do and I[‘ll] see what I can do. I love you so very much and now I’m turning in. I love you and remember I want only you. As ever,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. By the way bring those shorts I don’t know where you’ll wear them but bring them.
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
July 30, 1944
8:00 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
Well darling I just got back from town and I got a room for the eighth of Aug. so if you want to come now its [sic] up to you. As for me I want you. Darling if you come you’ll have to get a train ticket for Clarksville, Tenn. and plan to take a train to so you’ll get here around noon Tuesday the 8th so I can get in a [sic] meet you because we’ll have to go from Clarksville to Hopkinsville Kentucky because thats [sic] where I got the room. The hotel looks pretty clean and I don’t know just what you’ll think of it
[Page 2]
but if you don’t like it you can look for a place after your [sic] here. I think there [sic] going to give me a pass so keep your fingers cross[ed]. Ray’s wife is coming down the 9th and she’s staying in the same hotel. Well darling let me know what you decide to do and I[‘ll] see what I can do. I love you so very much and now I’m turning in. I love you and remember I want only you. As ever,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. By the way bring those shorts I don’t know where you’ll wear them but bring them.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, July 30, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1099.