MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Hauck, Walter S.
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1943
Volume: 1 item(s); 1 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This letter is written in 1943 to John Paul Merton, Thomas' younger brother, who was serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force and stationed in England for the war. The letter was written a little more than a month before John Paul died in action over the English Channel on April 16, 1943. The file includes the original signed letter from Walter Hauck.
Biography
Walter S. Hauck was a friend and distantly related in-law to Thomas and John Paul Merton. Walter Hauck's sister, Elsie, married Harold Jenkins, Thomas and John Paul Merton's uncle, in 1938. In his letter to John Paul, he refers to himself as "Unc" Walt. Thomas Merton corresponded with Walter Hauck's daughter Nancy Hauck Boettcher.
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See also the "Boettcher, Nancy Hauck" file.
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