Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 1, 1945 [EXAMPLE]
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 1, 1945 [EXAMPLE]
Subject
Money
Military life
Description
Howard reflects on friends and family back home after he received letters from the States. He also discusses his salary and money conversion so he can purchase merchandise at the PX.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-03-01
Contributor
Lintelman, Joy K. (transcriber)
Sjoberg, Lisa M. (metadata)
Sjoberg, Lisa M. (metadata)
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1945-03-01
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Correspondences
Text
March 1, 1945
7:30 P.M.
Dearest darling wife & no kids,
Well darling I feel good today because I got about seven letters from you and one from mom. The last letter I got from you was dated the 11th of Feb. and I like that one the best. I got that letter with the one from Rays [sic] wife Maxine in it too and I'm going to send it back with this letter. I guess junior is already here by the letter because she says something about the 24th of feb. [sic] and here it is the first of march [sic]. Well darling I just finished washing my head and I feel much better now. I’m sitting here trying to write and watch a poker
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game. Last night the p.x. came and I guess I won’t go broke buying stuff because I bought all I could last night and all I spent was forty francs which is about 80 cents. I even bought cigars. I still think they should pay us in american [sic] money. These francs really mix you up, its not the valuation of them, it [sic] the different size bill that don’t fit the billfold. Well darling so much for that. I guess it will be quite some time before I get back to the states but if you can wait I can. I love you darling and your letters really do something to me. Good night [sic] for now darling and remember I’ll always love you. As ever,
Howard
7:30 P.M.
Dearest darling wife & no kids,
Well darling I feel good today because I got about seven letters from you and one from mom. The last letter I got from you was dated the 11th of Feb. and I like that one the best. I got that letter with the one from Rays [sic] wife Maxine in it too and I'm going to send it back with this letter. I guess junior is already here by the letter because she says something about the 24th of feb. [sic] and here it is the first of march [sic]. Well darling I just finished washing my head and I feel much better now. I’m sitting here trying to write and watch a poker
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game. Last night the p.x. came and I guess I won’t go broke buying stuff because I bought all I could last night and all I spent was forty francs which is about 80 cents. I even bought cigars. I still think they should pay us in american [sic] money. These francs really mix you up, its not the valuation of them, it [sic] the different size bill that don’t fit the billfold. Well darling so much for that. I guess it will be quite some time before I get back to the states but if you can wait I can. I love you darling and your letters really do something to me. Good night [sic] for now darling and remember I’ll always love you. As ever,
Howard
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 1, 1945 [EXAMPLE],” Concordia Memory Project, accessed April 25, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/648.