Merton's Correspondence with:

Caillard, Bernard, Fr.; Fr. Bernard Caillard; Henri Caillard; Caillard, Henri

Caillard, Bernard, Fr., O.C.R. (Henri Caillard), 1895-


Official documentation papers with photo for Caillard with an enlargement of his photo. (Copyright Thomas Merton Legacy Trust.)

Descriptive Summary

Record Group:	Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials:	1941-1948
Volume:	9 item(s); 12 pg(s)

This collection contains an early original letter to Merton from 1948, a letter from John Brown to Caillard regarding censorship of a book about escaping Nazi occupied France while the war was still in progress, and a series of citizenship and naturalization papers related to Caillard. It is possible that Merton was interested in Caillard's World War II escape story, and/or that Caillard saw Merton as someone to help him get his story published.

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#	Date	From/To	First Lines	Pub ✓	Notes
	y/m/d	Merton		Scan ✉
1.	1941/01/07	other	Je soussigné, Dom Jean Bousquet, Abbé du Monastère Cistercien de N.Dame de Bonnecombe, Commune de		«detailed view»
2.	1941/12/30	other	Le nommé CAILLARD Henri en religion Frère MARIE MARTIN est autorisé à quitter le Centre		L'Abbaye de St. Michel de Cuxa «detailed view»
3.	1942/03/17	other	Extrait (Exécution note de service 648.SR/2 du 9 Mars 1942) " HÔPITAL MILITAIRE DE MARSEILLE		The American Consulate in Marseille, France «detailed view»
4.	1942/04/08	TLS from Préfet de l"Aveyron / to le Maire de Comps Lagrand Ville	Comme suite à votre lettre, j'ai l'honneur de vous faire connaître que Monsieur le Ministre de		the Prefect of Aveyron knows the Minister of the Interior, and he does not oppose a foreigner residing at the Monasère de Bonnecombe «detailed view»
5.	1942/04/27	other	Le nommé CAILLARD Edward, né le I/9/1895, a sollicité auprès de mes services la délivrance d'un visa		«detailed view»
6.	1942/07/10	other	ÉTRANGERS - Ministère de la Défense Nationale - République Française - Sauf-Conduit - Valable du		documentation papers for transfer from occupied France or from one area to another «detailed view»
7.	1944/01/21	TL from Brown, John, Lt. Col. / to Edward Caillard	I have now received some informal comments from Rait M.U.9 on the manuscript submitted with your		Caillard's escape story must be censored before publication for security reasons during World War II / no details of how he escaped, places he'd been, or who helped him can be included / Brown, from the Scottish Command H.Q., believes that the "meat" of the story would be lost if these parts were removed «detailed view»
8.	1948/09/15	HLS to Merton	Vous croyez peut-être que j'ai oublié la demande que vous s'adressez à la		[writing from the Abbaye de N.-D. de Citeaux par Nuits-Saint-Georges (Côte-d'Or)] references a letter from Merton of 1948/06/25 that is not extant «detailed view»
9.	undated/no/no	other to Merton	Illustrations [-] Frontispiece [-] N.D. de [..] Church [-] Page. 12		list of illustrations - possibly for manuscript of Caillard's escape story sent to Merton «detailed view»

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