Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 31, 1942
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 31, 1942
Subject
Military Life
Description
Howard wishes Yvette a happy new year and talks about doing a little gold-bricking (inventing excuses to avoid a task).
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977)
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of Concordia College Archives
Date
1942-12-31
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
1942-12-31
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Correspondences
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Hi Darling
How’s everything? Well here I am I just had a cold shower and I feel perfect. I’m glad that you had a nice [C]hristmas and I sure wish you a Happy New Year. I just got the box of fudge that you sent and boy is it good. I love you [D]arling. Well [D]arling the sun is shining to-day [sic] and it is pretty warm. [I]t’s [sic] sure is funny weather down here. Well [H]oney I did a little gold bricking
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to-day [sic]. I happened to get out of a long hike. Here it is New Years Eve and I can’t go out and have a good time because I got to get up to-morrow [sic] and go to work at six. Darling it’s ok I’ll send the box for the watch because all the mail from the 8th on will be sent to equally as soon as we leave so I get it right away. I gope everybody is ok and wish them all a happy [N]ew [Y]ear for me. Darling I love you. Lots of love
Howard
P.S. I love you.
[The following is written at the top of page 1]
I’m eating your candy now.
How’s everything? Well here I am I just had a cold shower and I feel perfect. I’m glad that you had a nice [C]hristmas and I sure wish you a Happy New Year. I just got the box of fudge that you sent and boy is it good. I love you [D]arling. Well [D]arling the sun is shining to-day [sic] and it is pretty warm. [I]t’s [sic] sure is funny weather down here. Well [H]oney I did a little gold bricking
[Page 3]
to-day [sic]. I happened to get out of a long hike. Here it is New Years Eve and I can’t go out and have a good time because I got to get up to-morrow [sic] and go to work at six. Darling it’s ok I’ll send the box for the watch because all the mail from the 8th on will be sent to equally as soon as we leave so I get it right away. I gope everybody is ok and wish them all a happy [N]ew [Y]ear for me. Darling I love you. Lots of love
Howard
P.S. I love you.
[The following is written at the top of page 1]
I’m eating your candy now.
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Sarty, Howard L. (1919-1977), “Letter to Yvette from Howard, December 31, 1942,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/708.