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_- Xe Teg et AT Eo ded orte wet te et a - | Fe a ° PINE. weeent Root Mo deey Goon Boake . TO: (Pe! men irae Shee WFO 1000-14994 Ci WA ERS By letter dated March 15, 1946 with a return address of "The Beeches", Enfield, Connecticut, the subject stated, "I am avplying for my passport in order to go to Africa. I want to do some field work toward my Begree PHD, Anthropology, Hartford Seminary, Hartford, Connecticut. I also want to do some general research for my writing and lectures. I have already made ene field trip to Africa in 1936 covering south and east Africa, all British areas. My beok, African Journey, based on that trip was published in this country in August 19445 and will be published in England this spring. 2 have been making a study of the life of the negro, FELIX EBOUER, late governor general of French Equatorial Africa, and the French Press and Information Service are so interested in this work that they have urged me to visit their part of Africa, where he lived and worked. Beigian, Officials, a little hurt at the few remarks in my book concerning their territory, have invited me to visit the Belgian Congo, to look at, and perhaps write about the changes that are taking place there, Both the French and British Officials have informed me that the four months, April, May, Jume, and July, are the really good months for work and travel in their territories, so I am anxious to set out as cuickly as possible to leave here early in April for the four or five months travel there, May I refer you to the officials NM. JEAN-de~las ROCHE, and Mlle. JEANNEXROUDOT, ef the French Press and Information Service, 501 Madison Avenue, New York City and to the M. ALBERT.GORIS, and M, MAXSHORN of the Belgian Gonsulate, Rockefeller Center, New York City. In case yor wish to confirm the official approvel and permission I have received from these countries. I will be very grateful if you | will facilitate the granting of ny passport at your convenience, Respectfully, ESLANDA GOODE ROBESON, * In response to this passport application and the above letter, she was issued passport 5206, on March 25, 1946. ‘Passport renewal application dated October 10, 1949 indicated that since subject's last passport was issued she has resided outside the United States as follows: French Equatorial Africa, Belgian Cohgo--May and October 1946, Mexico--September 9, 1949 to September 13, 1949. She stated that the purpases of her visits to the = above were fPanthropological research in Africa, personal visits in Mexico." She indicated that she intended to depart from the