Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 29, 1943
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 29, 1943
Subject
Military Life
Description
Howard writes this letter from the shower. Howard had a headache and goes to bed late.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1943-09-29
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
Text
Identifier
1943-09-29
Coverage
Camp Campbell, KY
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Original Format
Correspondences
Text
[at the top and center of the page the Camp Campbell logo is printed with CAMP CAMPBELL, KENTUCKY printed under the logo]
Sept. 29, 1943
11:30 PM
Hello darling,
Well here I am back from the fight and am sitting in the shower room to write so if you can’t read this you’ll know the reason why. Well the fight was good anyway. There was about forty thousand people there quite a crowd huh! Well darling [sic] I got up this morning with a headache and I still got it so I won’t write much. Darling I love you so much I wish you were here to night [sic] with me and I’ll
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bet I wouldn’t have this head ache [sic] any more [sic]. Well I guess I’ll go to bed and darling I still love you and if you only knew how much I love you, oh gee it’s no use I still have to wait a little while. Well darling [sic] I’ll close for now. I love you and until tomorrow… Lots of love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
Will You Marry Me??????
Sept. 29, 1943
11:30 PM
Hello darling,
Well here I am back from the fight and am sitting in the shower room to write so if you can’t read this you’ll know the reason why. Well the fight was good anyway. There was about forty thousand people there quite a crowd huh! Well darling [sic] I got up this morning with a headache and I still got it so I won’t write much. Darling I love you so much I wish you were here to night [sic] with me and I’ll
[page 2]
bet I wouldn’t have this head ache [sic] any more [sic]. Well I guess I’ll go to bed and darling I still love you and if you only knew how much I love you, oh gee it’s no use I still have to wait a little while. Well darling [sic] I’ll close for now. I love you and until tomorrow… Lots of love
Howard
[the following is included as a postscript]
Will You Marry Me??????
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Sarty, Howard L. 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, September 29, 1943,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 1, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/814.