Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 19, 1945
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 19, 1945
Description
Howard has to drive to Santa Barbara tomorrow, and he tells Yvette what he wants for Christmas.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-10-19
Contributor
Huebner, John (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
1945-10-19
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Correspondences
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Oct. 19, 1945
Friday
My Dear beautiful darling,
Gee I love you more all the time even if I didn’t get a little from you to day [sic]. I never get one on friday anyway so I wasn’t too disappointed. Well hows [sic] my little mommy today? I wish I could see you for just a little while but then I wouldn’t want to leave you so I guess its [sic] best if I want until I can stay home. To morrow [sic] I got to drive to Santa Barbara because
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some of the guys are going there on pass and I got to drive them in and bring them back at midnight but I’ll write to you from there. You asked me what I want for my birthday so I’ll tell you. How about a nice white shirt Sweet, I’ll always [illegible deletion] need it and darling thats [sic] all I want. Or you can get me a necktie. Gee I love you darling I want you so very much and gee darling I can’t wait til
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Christmas to get home. I miss you so much it seem that everything I do now I just keep thinking of you. Tony and I went to the show again to night [sic] just for something to do and now we’re back and about ready to go to bed. I love you darling and good night [sic] for now. I love you sweet. As Ever.
Howard
[The following was written as a postscript]
P.S. I love you even more than most.
Friday
My Dear beautiful darling,
Gee I love you more all the time even if I didn’t get a little from you to day [sic]. I never get one on friday anyway so I wasn’t too disappointed. Well hows [sic] my little mommy today? I wish I could see you for just a little while but then I wouldn’t want to leave you so I guess its [sic] best if I want until I can stay home. To morrow [sic] I got to drive to Santa Barbara because
[Page 2]
some of the guys are going there on pass and I got to drive them in and bring them back at midnight but I’ll write to you from there. You asked me what I want for my birthday so I’ll tell you. How about a nice white shirt Sweet, I’ll always [illegible deletion] need it and darling thats [sic] all I want. Or you can get me a necktie. Gee I love you darling I want you so very much and gee darling I can’t wait til
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Christmas to get home. I miss you so much it seem that everything I do now I just keep thinking of you. Tony and I went to the show again to night [sic] just for something to do and now we’re back and about ready to go to bed. I love you darling and good night [sic] for now. I love you sweet. As Ever.
Howard
[The following was written as a postscript]
P.S. I love you even more than most.
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, October 19, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 2, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/845.