Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 5, 1944

Letter to Yvette from Howard, March 5, 1944

Military Life

He talks about sending her the pen she asked for once he gets to the post office. Further along, he mentions a movie he was going to see, The Uninvited. He concludes by asking how her grandmother is.

Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977

Harvey, Gretchen (donor)

Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives

1944-03-05

Haekenkamp, Daniele (digitization, transcription, metadata)

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License

Correspondences

English

Text

1944-03-05

Camp Campbell, Kentucky

Correspondences

Camp Campbell, Ky.

March 5, 1944


Hello Tall Blonde and Beautiful

How’s my little gal to night [sic]? Well here it’s Sunday and a day off from duty so I’m going to start off right by writing you first. Darling you asked me to send you any old pen well its [sic] all short so I got you a new one and if I ever get to the post office I’ll mail it. Well the rainy season has hit Ky. so I guess we’ll either stay in the barracks or get wet. Gee darling nothing new happens down here so what can a guy write about. I’m going to the show


[Page 2]




to-day [sic] to see The Uninvited some of the boys said it was good so I’ll go see for my self [sic]. Darling; How[‘]s everybody back home. I had a dream last night and in it I was with you and night in the middle of the dream I woke up then when I went back to sleep again I could seem to continue it. Darling I[‘]ll write you to morrow [sic]. I love you and gee darling when is this war going to end. As ever,

Howard


[The following is written as a post script]

P.S. I love you. Darling hows [sic] your grandmother?