Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 26, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 26, 1943
Subject
Military Life
Description
Howard writes to Yvette while on C. Q.. He reminisces about time he spent with Yvette.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-09-26
Contributor
Probst, Jacob (digitization, transcription, metadata
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Correspondences
Identifier
1943-09-26
Coverage
Camp Campbell, KY
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Correspondences
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Camp Campbell Ky. [Kentucky]
Sept. 27,1943
Hello darling [sic],
Well I went to bed early tonight and couldn’t sleep so here I am up and writing you this letter. Going to bed early well it was eleven thirty and now it [sic] two in the morning. Well honey do you still love me as much as I love you? gee [sic] I don’t know what this world is coming to
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do you. [sic] Everything seem [sic] so crazy I don’t know what to do. I miss you so darn much that I guess that [sic] why I couldn’t go to sleep with out [sic] getting up and writing you at least two or three times. well darling [sic] nothing knew [sic] has happened around here to-day [sic] except that Ted (my sleeping partner) is getting ready to go on furlough. Gee I wish I was in his shoes just to think of going
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home makes me feel so funny inside. Well I won’t be coming home for quite a while but I can dream can’t I! Well darling [sic] I guess I can sleep now so I guess I [sic] close and anyway two o’clock is no time to write to a nice girl like you. Well good night for now. Lots of Love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
When are you coming down to See [sic] me answer Please [sic]
Sept. 27,1943
Hello darling [sic],
Well I went to bed early tonight and couldn’t sleep so here I am up and writing you this letter. Going to bed early well it was eleven thirty and now it [sic] two in the morning. Well honey do you still love me as much as I love you? gee [sic] I don’t know what this world is coming to
[page 2]
do you. [sic] Everything seem [sic] so crazy I don’t know what to do. I miss you so darn much that I guess that [sic] why I couldn’t go to sleep with out [sic] getting up and writing you at least two or three times. well darling [sic] nothing knew [sic] has happened around here to-day [sic] except that Ted (my sleeping partner) is getting ready to go on furlough. Gee I wish I was in his shoes just to think of going
[page 3]
home makes me feel so funny inside. Well I won’t be coming home for quite a while but I can dream can’t I! Well darling [sic] I guess I can sleep now so I guess I [sic] close and anyway two o’clock is no time to write to a nice girl like you. Well good night for now. Lots of Love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
When are you coming down to See [sic] me answer Please [sic]
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 26, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/813.