Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 26, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 26, 1943
Subject
Military Life, Love Letter, Christmas
Description
Howard told Yvette that he might go on furlough and that when they are together they will have a Christmas tree every year.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-12-26
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
1943-12-26
Coverage
Camp Campbell, KY
Document Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Correspondences
Text
[official United States Army seal is at the top and center of the page]
Camp Campbell, Ky. [Kentucky]
Dec. 26, 1943
Dear Yvette,
Well you just keep wishing hard enough and I’ll probably be home before the New Year. Well darling here it is the day after christmas [sic] and no snow yet, (aint [sic] that awful). I feel pretty good to day [sic] compared to what I felt like yesterday. Well darling we’ll have a tree every year won’t we even though we are grown up or when the kid grows up. If you don’t think that I missed the tree for the last two years your [sic] mistaken.
[page 2]
Well there’s nothing new to day [sic] except to-morrow [sic] I go out on bivouac again. a and [sic] darling I’ll always love you and please beleive [sic] me when I tell you that I really love you. Good night darling Love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
I love you
Camp Campbell, Ky. [Kentucky]
Dec. 26, 1943
Dear Yvette,
Well you just keep wishing hard enough and I’ll probably be home before the New Year. Well darling here it is the day after christmas [sic] and no snow yet, (aint [sic] that awful). I feel pretty good to day [sic] compared to what I felt like yesterday. Well darling we’ll have a tree every year won’t we even though we are grown up or when the kid grows up. If you don’t think that I missed the tree for the last two years your [sic] mistaken.
[page 2]
Well there’s nothing new to day [sic] except to-morrow [sic] I go out on bivouac again. a and [sic] darling I’ll always love you and please beleive [sic] me when I tell you that I really love you. Good night darling Love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
I love you
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 26, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 12, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/1181.