Cornelius Ryan WWII papers, box 020, folder 15: Frank Cooksey

Interview

Dear Editor

First I would like to thank You for allowing Me to write to You of my experiance. Secondly I must apologize for my awful writing. I hope You dont have to much trouble understanding it all. there seems to be much more to say but I find it difficult to express it in writing

Normandy means much more to Me than most people because at this very Moment. In the FALIAS-GAP a scene of some of the most savage action is My Daughter

SHIRLEY COOKSEY I visited her last Year and I received a letter from Her last Month. Thats one reason Why the Normandy Landings means so much to Me.

Yours faithfully. F. Cooksey.

17th June, 1958.

F. Cooksey, Esq., 84, Summerfield Road, Luton, Beds.

Dear Mr. Cooksey,

Further to my letter of the 2nd June, Mr. Ryan is now in London and would very much like to meet you in connection with his book on D-Day.

I wonder, therefore, if you would very kindly telephone me at the above address, reversing the charges, so that we could arrange a mutually convenient meeting.

Yours sincerely, (Joan Ogle Isaacs) Research Editor

26th June, 1958.

F. Cooksey, Esq., 84, Summerfield Road, Luton, Beds.

Dear Mr. Cooksey,

Mr. Ryan has asked me to write and thank you very much for coming to London the other evening to see him in connection with his D-Day project. He is quite delighted with the material you gave him and I can promise you will figure largely in his book.

I am enclosing a postal order for 15/- to cover the expenses you incurred on that evening.

Very many thanks for your kind co-operation.

Yours sincerely, (Joan Ogle Isaacs)

I, hereby agree that Mr. Cornelius Ryan has all rights whatsoever in the interview with, and the questionnaire and letter from me regarding D-Day.

SIGNED F. Cooksey DATE 03-6-58.