Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 20, 1944

Letter from Howard to Yvette, May 20, 1944

Military Life

He tries to answer Yvette's question on rings size. He talks about a friend agreeing with their marriage.

Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977

Harvey, Gretchen (donor)

Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives

1944-05-20

Haekenkamp, Daniele (digitization, transcription, metadata)

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Correspondences

English

Text

1944-05-20

Camp Campbell, KY

Correspondences

[The following is written on official United States Army Stationary]

May 20, 1944

10:30 P.M.


Hello Darling,

Gee darling I’m lonesome to night [sic] and wish I could see you just for a little while but I guess I can wait. I got a nice letter from you to-day [sic] and also one from my mother. Darling I don’t know what my ring size is because I’ve never bough[t] a ring. So Betty agrees with us about us getting married well she has to anyway because if she didn’t I’d get married any way. Well darling I’m getting


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so I can sleep and eat again but its [sic] hard work. Yve. did I ever tell you that I Ioved you. Well I do and if you don’t beleive [sic] it I do what I did one day. Remember when I took you over my knees and [illegible deletion] well you didn’t dare sit down, well I always bid [?] enough to do it again. Well I got to go now it[‘s] getting late and I’m kind of tired to night [sic]. I love you and always will. As Ever


Howard


[The following is written as a post script]

I love you