Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 7, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 7, 1943
Subject
Military LIfe
Description
Howard asked Yvette what she wanted for Christmas and asked Yvette to hold onto a war bond for him.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-11-07
Contributor
Probst, Jacob (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
1943-11-07
Coverage
Camp Campbell, KY
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Correspondences
Text
Camp Campbell Ky [Kentucky]
Nov. 7, 1943
Hello darling
I just got you [sic] card you sent me and I think your [sic] swell but please tell me what you want for christmas besides a picture of me. You’ll get the picture anyway. By the way darling will you take the war bond and save it for me huh. The more I look at the bill fold the better I like it and darling you couldn’t of gotten anything you I wanted any more [sic] than that, except coming to see me. Gee Honey I miss
[page 2]
you so much more now then [sic] I used to. Well its [sic] been an awful weekend rained for two days now and it doesn’t look like its [sic] ever going to stop. By the way darling do you want the picture colored or not? I hope that Norman and Paul have fdsa time at the Totam [sic] Pole and we’ll go there to [sic] in the near future I hope. Well darling I got to go now but I’ll keep you informed to weather [sic] I’m living every day [sic] and darling I love you more and more every day if that’s possible. Lot of love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
That [sic] all the paper I have tonight. The Rest is coming in the morning.
Nov. 7, 1943
Hello darling
I just got you [sic] card you sent me and I think your [sic] swell but please tell me what you want for christmas besides a picture of me. You’ll get the picture anyway. By the way darling will you take the war bond and save it for me huh. The more I look at the bill fold the better I like it and darling you couldn’t of gotten anything you I wanted any more [sic] than that, except coming to see me. Gee Honey I miss
[page 2]
you so much more now then [sic] I used to. Well its [sic] been an awful weekend rained for two days now and it doesn’t look like its [sic] ever going to stop. By the way darling do you want the picture colored or not? I hope that Norman and Paul have fdsa time at the Totam [sic] Pole and we’ll go there to [sic] in the near future I hope. Well darling I got to go now but I’ll keep you informed to weather [sic] I’m living every day [sic] and darling I love you more and more every day if that’s possible. Lot of love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
That [sic] all the paper I have tonight. The Rest is coming in the morning.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 7, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1143.