Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 26, 1942
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 26, 1942
Subject
Military Extracurricular Activities
Description
Howard talks about receiving candy, his buddy's birthday, going to dinner, and a dream he had of Yvette.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977)
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of Concordia College Archives
Date
1942-10-26
Contributor
Zimny, Sean (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
1942-10-26
Coverage
Fort Knox, Kentucky
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Correspondences
Text
Hi Darling
How’s the weather up there it sure is darn cold down here. I got the box of candy you sent me and it’s perfect. So you took my mother and two sisters to worcester last week. Evelyn told me the day before you told me. My buddy's birthday is on the sixteenth of Nov. and mines on the tenth and he wants me to go out with him but I don’t know whether I will or not, it won’t be the same as it always has with out [sic] you. It will be just like
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going to the dinner the other night. It makes me think of how much I miss you. Well so much for that now about us. What do you say we get married and win the war after then we won’t have to wait. You know [D]arling I had a dream about you last night and it seemed so real. Remember that night we were eating down at Bob house well I dreamt that we had just come in from skating and we changed our clothes and took off our shoes and layed [sic] down on the floor in front of the fire place [sic] and watched the fire of course. I had my arms around you and every once in awhile I would roll over
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and kiss you. You know in this dream we were Man and wife. [illegible deletion] Well about 1:30 we decided to go to bed and then I kissed you good night [sic] and woke up. I guess its [sic] because we had twin beds. Oh [D]arling I love you so much that it hurts. I sure hope I can see you christmas [sic] because I miss you more then. I [sic] going to be shipped out but I don’t know where or when. I hope I go nearer home. I haven’t [heard] from Norman yet. I guess he for got [sic] to write to an old friend like me. As for the teeth puller the army has [illegible deletion] the best men. I didn’t feel it at
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all. Well I’m running out of thing [sic] to say so I guess I say good night [sic] for now. Do you not like the paper I’m writing on well its [sic] some more borrow stuff. i locked my paper and I lost the key. I love you [D]arling and I [I’ll] be [illegible deletion] so back home some of these days. Something is wrong with the light down here they keep going on and off so I’m making a mess of this. Love you. Love,
Howard
How’s the weather up there it sure is darn cold down here. I got the box of candy you sent me and it’s perfect. So you took my mother and two sisters to worcester last week. Evelyn told me the day before you told me. My buddy's birthday is on the sixteenth of Nov. and mines on the tenth and he wants me to go out with him but I don’t know whether I will or not, it won’t be the same as it always has with out [sic] you. It will be just like
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going to the dinner the other night. It makes me think of how much I miss you. Well so much for that now about us. What do you say we get married and win the war after then we won’t have to wait. You know [D]arling I had a dream about you last night and it seemed so real. Remember that night we were eating down at Bob house well I dreamt that we had just come in from skating and we changed our clothes and took off our shoes and layed [sic] down on the floor in front of the fire place [sic] and watched the fire of course. I had my arms around you and every once in awhile I would roll over
[Page 3]
and kiss you. You know in this dream we were Man and wife. [illegible deletion] Well about 1:30 we decided to go to bed and then I kissed you good night [sic] and woke up. I guess its [sic] because we had twin beds. Oh [D]arling I love you so much that it hurts. I sure hope I can see you christmas [sic] because I miss you more then. I [sic] going to be shipped out but I don’t know where or when. I hope I go nearer home. I haven’t [heard] from Norman yet. I guess he for got [sic] to write to an old friend like me. As for the teeth puller the army has [illegible deletion] the best men. I didn’t feel it at
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all. Well I’m running out of thing [sic] to say so I guess I say good night [sic] for now. Do you not like the paper I’m writing on well its [sic] some more borrow stuff. i locked my paper and I lost the key. I love you [D]arling and I [I’ll] be [illegible deletion] so back home some of these days. Something is wrong with the light down here they keep going on and off so I’m making a mess of this. Love you. Love,
Howard
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Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977), “Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 26, 1942,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/668.