Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 7, 1942
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 7, 1942
Subject
Military Life
Love-Letters
Description
Howard is really missing Yvette. He makes sure she knows he loves her.
Creator
Sarty, Howard l., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1942-05-07
Contributor
Wayne, Brandon (digitization, transcription, metadata)
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1942-05-07
Coverage
Fort Devens, Massachuchets
Document Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Correspondences
Text
Fort Devens, Massachusetts
May 7, 1942
Darling Yve,
I am having normal time wish you were here. I wrote my mother and I told her I would call her up [S]aturday night if I would be able to see her [S]unday and I told her to bring you, I am ashamed of my uniform but I want to see so [sic] much I don’t care. How are you and the family[?] I love you. I could have gone to a dance in Lowell but I went to bed and had a dream of you. There are dances every night here and about 4[illegible deletion] shows in this [illegible deletion] part all of the latest. (I love you) turn this upside down [The following was written upside down] I love you.
[Page 2]
I forgot to ask you if you would like to come up to see me. I wish I was back home and working so we could get married. How is the organ lesson coming I want you to write me a couple of letters. Hold this against a mirror I love you [“I love you” was written backwards] and I really is incase the writing because I get up at four o’clock in the morning a[sic] that when I wrote this letter. Your little Prt Pvt
Howard
[The following is written in postscript]
P.s. I love you, I love you, I love you
[Back of letter it says “Don’t forget me.”]
May 7, 1942
Darling Yve,
I am having normal time wish you were here. I wrote my mother and I told her I would call her up [S]aturday night if I would be able to see her [S]unday and I told her to bring you, I am ashamed of my uniform but I want to see so [sic] much I don’t care. How are you and the family[?] I love you. I could have gone to a dance in Lowell but I went to bed and had a dream of you. There are dances every night here and about 4[illegible deletion] shows in this [illegible deletion] part all of the latest. (I love you) turn this upside down [The following was written upside down] I love you.
[Page 2]
I forgot to ask you if you would like to come up to see me. I wish I was back home and working so we could get married. How is the organ lesson coming I want you to write me a couple of letters. Hold this against a mirror I love you [“I love you” was written backwards] and I really is incase the writing because I get up at four o’clock in the morning a[sic] that when I wrote this letter. Your little Prt Pvt
Howard
[The following is written in postscript]
P.s. I love you, I love you, I love you
[Back of letter it says “Don’t forget me.”]
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Sarty, Howard l., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 7, 1942,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed May 16, 2024, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/881.