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CORNELIUS RYAN
230 EAST 48th STREET
NEW YORK, NEW YORK

June 30, 1959

Lt. Col. Charles R. Cawthon
Hq, AFCE
APB 11
New York, N.Y.

Dear Colonel Cawthon:

Many thanks for your note. I have no
intention of using all your reminiscences of D-Day and I
thought when we saw you in your office last year that the
project had been fully explained to you.

As there are more than a thousand
people mentioned in the D-Day book, you will readily
understand that about all the space anybody can get is
a line or two at most. In your case the only reference
is [crossed out] a [end crossed out] one line on page 183 and reads as follows:

Capt. Sherman Burroughs of the 29th Division
told Capt. Charles Cawthon that he planned to
recite "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" on the way
into the beach.

As you can see, no release is actually
necessary but in histories of this type it is customary
to ask each person mentioned to sign a release and in this
case my publishers have insisted on the procedure being
followed.

We have no intention of taking advantage
of you in any way whatsoever and you will be obliging me if
you would be good enough to let me have your authority for
the above sentence.

Yours sincerely,

Cornelius Ryan

CR:aw
encl.

22 July '59
Dear Mr Ryan-
I returned yesterday from leave to
recieve your letter.
It was my understanding from the
wording of the release that to sign it would mean that
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