Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 22, 1942 (1)
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 22, 1942 (1)
Subject
Military Training
Description
Howard talks about his twenty-five mile hike, the bad weather, and how lonesome he's getting.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977)
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of Concordia College Archives
Date
1942-11-22
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
1942-11-22
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Correspondences
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Darling Yve,
How are you to-day [sic]? Im [sic] sorry that I haven’t written lately. The reason is because I haven’t had much time. I’ll begin with [W]ednesday. Well [W]ed. I had twenty four [sic] hrs. of guard to do. [T]hat lasted intil [sic] Thurs. night and it rained all the time. Then Thurs. night I had to get ready for a parade we had to go on. We had a general come down here. He was the cheif [sic] of the Armed forces.
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Then Sat. we had to get ready for a twenty-five mile hike. Well we rolled our packs [F]riday night and was all ready to go. Then at 4 o’clock had it started raining like the devil. Well anyway we marched the twenty-five miles in the rain. [S]o that[‘s] why I haven’t written for that for that march was too much for me. Don’t you feel sorry for me [H]oney. Darling I got a couple of pictures of my self. Remember that time I went to Kansas just before I came home on furlough well my friend just sent me a couple of prints.
[Page 3]
Gee I sure wish I could see you again. I got so darn lonesome down here all alone. I got a buddy from Colorado. His name is Tony Hundrung and he feel[s] good since he got a picture of his girl. Boy I’m glad I got this picture of you and I got it so I can look at it all the time. I’m kind of stiff from the march and the top kick came in this morning and said you look like a beat up old duck ain’t [sic] that a nice way to talk to a R.F.C.
[Page 4]
Well I can’t think of much more to say right now except that I love you, and I never stop loving you but the picture don’t [sic] look so good. I read a book. The title was (Out of the Night) It was a good story but awful dirty so don’t read it. Of course you might of read it already. Well [D]arling I guess I’ll doze now. I love you and I [will] write to-morrow [sic] for sure. Love
Hubby
P.S. When are you going to tell [illegible deletion] me [illegible deletion] that you’ll [illegible deletion] marry me?
[The following is written at the bottom of Page 4 after the P.S.]
How about the mistakes
How are you to-day [sic]? Im [sic] sorry that I haven’t written lately. The reason is because I haven’t had much time. I’ll begin with [W]ednesday. Well [W]ed. I had twenty four [sic] hrs. of guard to do. [T]hat lasted intil [sic] Thurs. night and it rained all the time. Then Thurs. night I had to get ready for a parade we had to go on. We had a general come down here. He was the cheif [sic] of the Armed forces.
[Page 2]
Then Sat. we had to get ready for a twenty-five mile hike. Well we rolled our packs [F]riday night and was all ready to go. Then at 4 o’clock had it started raining like the devil. Well anyway we marched the twenty-five miles in the rain. [S]o that[‘s] why I haven’t written for that for that march was too much for me. Don’t you feel sorry for me [H]oney. Darling I got a couple of pictures of my self. Remember that time I went to Kansas just before I came home on furlough well my friend just sent me a couple of prints.
[Page 3]
Gee I sure wish I could see you again. I got so darn lonesome down here all alone. I got a buddy from Colorado. His name is Tony Hundrung and he feel[s] good since he got a picture of his girl. Boy I’m glad I got this picture of you and I got it so I can look at it all the time. I’m kind of stiff from the march and the top kick came in this morning and said you look like a beat up old duck ain’t [sic] that a nice way to talk to a R.F.C.
[Page 4]
Well I can’t think of much more to say right now except that I love you, and I never stop loving you but the picture don’t [sic] look so good. I read a book. The title was (Out of the Night) It was a good story but awful dirty so don’t read it. Of course you might of read it already. Well [D]arling I guess I’ll doze now. I love you and I [will] write to-morrow [sic] for sure. Love
Hubby
P.S. When are you going to tell [illegible deletion] me [illegible deletion] that you’ll [illegible deletion] marry me?
[The following is written at the bottom of Page 4 after the P.S.]
How about the mistakes
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Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977) , “Letter to Yvette from Howard, November 22, 1942 (1),” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/679.