Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 3, 1944
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 3, 1944
Subject
Military life, Love letters
Description
He tells Yvette a more specific traveling plan for her to come visit him. He also tells her when he will have time off to spend with her.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1944-08-03
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
1944-08-03
Coverage
Camp Campbell, Tennessee
Document Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Correspondences
Text
[Written on United States Army stationery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 3, 1944
6:00 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
I’m writing to you this letter to tell you that you can take an early train Monday morning and you’ll arrive some time Tuesday evening. If you tell me what train to meet I’ll be there. You get a ticket from Worcester to Clarkesville Tenn. from there if you come and don’t tell me well you [can] take a cab to the bus station, then you take a bus to Hopkinsville Kentucky. You go out on the bus station take your left and on the right side of the street you’ll see the new central Hotel I’ll have a room there. If its [sic] not what you like we can
[Page 2]
try to find something else but its [sic] kind of hard. Darling I asked for a pass to day [sic] and I think I got from Tuesday at six o’clock until Thursday morning 05:30 so if you make an evening train I’ll be able to be there tell me darling will you. I can’t wait until you get here honest darling I love you so much. Well darling I hope you get this before you leave. I love you. Yours forever,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I love you.
[Envelope included with the letter addressed to: Mrs. Howard Sarty, 47 Winter St., Southbridge, Mass. from: Cpl Howard Sarty 11051455, Co “c” 8th A.I.Bn., A.P.O. 444 Camp Campbell, Ky., U.S. Army and delivered via air mail special delivery]
[Camp Campbell, Kentucky]
Aug. 3, 1944
6:00 P.M.
Dear Mummy,
I’m writing to you this letter to tell you that you can take an early train Monday morning and you’ll arrive some time Tuesday evening. If you tell me what train to meet I’ll be there. You get a ticket from Worcester to Clarkesville Tenn. from there if you come and don’t tell me well you [can] take a cab to the bus station, then you take a bus to Hopkinsville Kentucky. You go out on the bus station take your left and on the right side of the street you’ll see the new central Hotel I’ll have a room there. If its [sic] not what you like we can
[Page 2]
try to find something else but its [sic] kind of hard. Darling I asked for a pass to day [sic] and I think I got from Tuesday at six o’clock until Thursday morning 05:30 so if you make an evening train I’ll be able to be there tell me darling will you. I can’t wait until you get here honest darling I love you so much. Well darling I hope you get this before you leave. I love you. Yours forever,
Howard
[The following was included as a postscript]
P.S. I love you.
[Envelope included with the letter addressed to: Mrs. Howard Sarty, 47 Winter St., Southbridge, Mass. from: Cpl Howard Sarty 11051455, Co “c” 8th A.I.Bn., A.P.O. 444 Camp Campbell, Ky., U.S. Army and delivered via air mail special delivery]
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, August 3, 1944,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 11, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1102.