Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 1945
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 1945
Subject
Military Life
Description
Howard tells Yvette he went downtown last night and had trouble because he doesn't speak French. He's also still sad he hasn't gotten any letters from her
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-02
Contributor
Wibel, Maret (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
France
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Correspondences
Text
Feb. 1945
at night.
Dearest Yve,
Well darling here I am in the middle of nowhere in France. The places I’ve been are pretty beat up but its [sic] what I expected. I’m going to try to look up brother Bill while I’m here but I don’t know just when I’ll get a chance. I went to town last night and darling my french isn’t what it should be but I guess I’ll get along. I’m getting plenty to eat and sleep so that [sic] the main thing and I feel good.
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I haven’t had any mail from you for a long time. Gee I hope it catches up soon. Yve, you know that saturday [sic] night in town well I woke up during the night and it seem [sic] to me that your night gown was torn in the back, if its [sic] true will you let me know. I tell you its [sic] been worring [sic] me and another thing how have you been and how are you now. Well darling I got to close for now and will write again soon, I love you lots darling. All my love
Howard.
at night.
Dearest Yve,
Well darling here I am in the middle of nowhere in France. The places I’ve been are pretty beat up but its [sic] what I expected. I’m going to try to look up brother Bill while I’m here but I don’t know just when I’ll get a chance. I went to town last night and darling my french isn’t what it should be but I guess I’ll get along. I’m getting plenty to eat and sleep so that [sic] the main thing and I feel good.
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I haven’t had any mail from you for a long time. Gee I hope it catches up soon. Yve, you know that saturday [sic] night in town well I woke up during the night and it seem [sic] to me that your night gown was torn in the back, if its [sic] true will you let me know. I tell you its [sic] been worring [sic] me and another thing how have you been and how are you now. Well darling I got to close for now and will write again soon, I love you lots darling. All my love
Howard.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, February 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/769.