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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.
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.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also the "Boettcher, Nancy Hauck" file.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1943/03/11 |
HLS to Merton, John Paul |
Well the Haucks are expanding - Peter Robert arrived on March 7th weighing 7lbs 5½oz. and chafing |
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Verso: stamped "REPORTED KILLED" with note "Died of injuries" (note dated May 22, 1943; death was April 17).
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