Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 17, 1945
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Title
Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 17, 1945
Description
Howard tries to answer questions Yvette had apparently asked regarding things like censorship and his location. He thanks her for packages he just received from home, and talks about a movie he went to see.
Creator
Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977
Source
Harvey, Gretchen (donor)
Publisher
Courtesy of the Concordia College Archives
Date
1945-05-17
Contributor
Tommerdahl, Maria (digitization, transcription, metadata)
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Format
Correspondences
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
1945-05-17
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Correspondences
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May 17, 1945
Thursday
Dearest darling wife & no 12 points,
I just got that letter you wrote where the war was over and there’s one thing I’d like to see and that is how to sleep on both ears at one time. You’ll have to show me when I get home. In answer to some of your questions no 1 we still have censorship and no 2 I’m lonely. No. 3 Yes I was in the 15th army at first and now in the 7th as far as I know now. As for where I am now well I’m located in a hotel in [Laufen?] about fifty miles south of Munich on the Austrian border. As for the towns darling you can tell they weren’t built in the within [sic] the last fifty years. Gee darling I just got a supprise [sic] I got two packages from you to night [sic] and they we’re [sic] swell. Thank your dad for me for the Liberty. I like to read them. I got the stationary too. And tell pop the fruit cake is swell. I’m eating some now. Everything else was swell darling and the cigaretts [sic] are really welcomed because I had very few left. I wish I could go home though darling and see you. I didn’t write last night because I had a chance to see a show. The picture was Bathing beauty [sic]. I guess
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you’ve already seen it. Well when I got back the lights were out and it was kind of late anyway. Well darling I guess I’ll quit now because well just because there’s nothing else to say. If you we’re [sic] here I could say plenty but your [sic] not and what I want to say would be for you only. I love you darling and I hope I get home before too long. All my love,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. They’re playing A little on the lonely side [sic] right now. Kind of rubbing it in huh!
Thursday
Dearest darling wife & no 12 points,
I just got that letter you wrote where the war was over and there’s one thing I’d like to see and that is how to sleep on both ears at one time. You’ll have to show me when I get home. In answer to some of your questions no 1 we still have censorship and no 2 I’m lonely. No. 3 Yes I was in the 15th army at first and now in the 7th as far as I know now. As for where I am now well I’m located in a hotel in [Laufen?] about fifty miles south of Munich on the Austrian border. As for the towns darling you can tell they weren’t built in the within [sic] the last fifty years. Gee darling I just got a supprise [sic] I got two packages from you to night [sic] and they we’re [sic] swell. Thank your dad for me for the Liberty. I like to read them. I got the stationary too. And tell pop the fruit cake is swell. I’m eating some now. Everything else was swell darling and the cigaretts [sic] are really welcomed because I had very few left. I wish I could go home though darling and see you. I didn’t write last night because I had a chance to see a show. The picture was Bathing beauty [sic]. I guess
[Page 2]
you’ve already seen it. Well when I got back the lights were out and it was kind of late anyway. Well darling I guess I’ll quit now because well just because there’s nothing else to say. If you we’re [sic] here I could say plenty but your [sic] not and what I want to say would be for you only. I love you darling and I hope I get home before too long. All my love,
Howard
[The following is written as a postscript.]
P.S. They’re playing A little on the lonely side [sic] right now. Kind of rubbing it in huh!
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Sarty, Howard L., 1919-1977, “Letter to Yvette from Howard, May 17, 1945,” Concordia Memory Project, accessed November 2, 2026, https://concordiamemoryproject.concordiacollegearchives.org/items/show/976.