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June 10, 1959
AG PO-XR The Adjutant General Department of the Army Washington 25, D.C.
Gentlemen: On behalf of Mr. Ryan who has just completed a book on D-Day, under the sponsorship of the Reader's Digest, we would very much appreciate your giving us the present addresses of the following:
Lt. Col. Charles R. Cawthon Allied Forces Center Europe EUCOM PIO Paris, France
Major General M. Caffey 200 West Las Cruces Avenue Post Office Box 347 Las Cruces, New Mexico
We have written several letters to these gentlemen during the past two months but have not had a reply from them nor have the letters been returned to us.
We are most anxious to get in touch with them and would deeply appreciate your giving us this information.
Many thanks for all your help in the D-Day project.
Sincerely,
for Cornelius Ryan aw
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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 RyanI 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 (over)
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I could never use the material in any future publication should I desire to do so as it would be covered by copyright of your publishers.
As you assure me that this is not the case, I am signing the release and returning it.
Best wishes for your book-
Charles R Cawthon Lt. Col [illegible] USA