C O P Y

LETTER FROM W. E. B. DU BOIS TO LANGSTON HUGHES

With some exceptions all of these poems
are interesting with their simplicity and
strength; many are very fine and there are
several bits of sheer exquisite beauty.

W. E. B. DuBois

1 May '26

A REQUEST

Dr. Herbert Aptheker is now engaged in editing the letters and papers of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. Will those having such manuscripts please communicate with Dr. Aptheker at

1015 Washington Avenue
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE

W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS

January 31, 1929

My dear Mr. Hughes:

You perhaps know that at the Fourth Pan African
Congress held in New York a Committee was appointed
to call a Fifth Congress. As Chairman of this Com-
mittee, I have been in correspondence with represent-
atives of the French Government, and particularly with
Gratien Gandace, member of the French Parliament from
Guadeloupe, who was President of the Third Pan African
Congress. With the cordial co-operation of the French
Government, it is proposed that a Fifth Pan African
Congress be held in North Africa in December, 1929.
For this purpose, a French Travel Agency proposes to
arrange an itinerary which should carry us in our own
boat from New York to France, and then furnish a tour
from Paris to Marseilles, and from Marseilles to Tu-
nis, Algiers and Morocco, returning again from France
in our own steamer. I am enclosing some documents
which show details concerning this trip. Will you
kindly look them over? In order to arrange such a
trip, we shall need a minimum of 250 persons. Could
you be one of these persons? Would any member of your
family be able to accompany you? Can you send me a
list of your personal friends whom I could invite to
join us? We want, of course, congenial people who
will be able to meet the representatives of the best
people of African descent and of the representatives
of the French nation.

I shall be glad to have an answer at your earliest
convenience.

Enclosures

FIFTH PANAFRICAN CONVENTION
December 20th to 28th 1929
TUNIS

1929 November 30th: Sail from New York on SS Milwaukee or SS St. Louis.

December 8th: Arrive Cherbourg and proceed by special train to Paris.

December 9th to 14th: Paris. Receptions - Excursions.

December 15th: Paris to Avignon by train.

December 16th: Motor excursion to Arles.

December 17th: To Marseilles - Visit of town.

December 18th: Embark at Marseilles, to Tunis.

December 20th: Arrive Tunis.

December 21st to 27th: Tunis - Convention - Trips to Carthage, Sousse, Kairouan.

December 28th: Leave for Constantine.

December 29th: Constantine.

December 30th: To Biskra.

December 31st to January 1st: New Year at Biskra(1930)

January 2nd: To Bougie.

January 3rd: To Algiers.

January 4th to 5th: In Algiers.

January 6th: To Tlemcen.

January 7th: Visit of Tlemcen and leave by motor for Oudjda.

January 8th: To Taza and Fes by motor.

January 9th: Fes.

January 10th: Visit Meknes and night at Rabat.

January 11th: Proceed afternoon to Casablanca.

January 12th to 14th: Casablanca and trip to Marrakech.

January 15th: Embark for Marseilles or Bordeaux.

January 16th to 17th: At sea.

January 18th: To Paris by rail.

January 19th: Paris.

January 20th: To Cherbourg. Embark on SS Milwaukee or SS St. Louis.

January 28th: Arrive New York.

Price including all expenses from New York to
New York $995.00.

Atlantic crossings on one-class boats.

Mediterranean crossings corresponding to grade A-B or C on Atlantic (see tariff for special staterooms). There are a limited number of rooms with bath and single staterooms at a supplementary charge.

1st class hotels - 3 meals and lodging - baths where available.

All meals in route.

Transfer of hand-luggage not exceeding two pieces per person.

Tips and taxes.

Transportation by rail - second class, sleeping-car accommodations when necessary.

Sightseeing tours arranged in the principal towns.

The Committee for which the Agence Branger, 5 Rue Cambon, Paris, is acting as tour managers reserves its rights to modify the itinerary according to needs of the Convention or desires of the various governments interested in the welfare of the Convention.

COLOR AND DEMOCRACY
COLONIES AND PEACE

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
69 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK 3, N. Y.

DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL RESEARCH

W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS
DIRECTOR

ELLEN IRENE DIGGS
RESEARCH ASSISTANT

8 January 1945

My dear Mr. Hughes:

I am exploring the advisability of assembling in New York, next month a small colonial conference of the following lines:

1. representatives of each colony living now in or near New York; these persons to be natives of the colonies and preferably resident in them fairly recently. These representatives to prepare for the conference:

a. a short statement of present colonial conditions

b. a statement of colonial demands now and in the post-war period, seeking so far as possible to outline all important bodies of opinion, and if possible to present documentary material.

2. representatives of the chief colonial powers, if possible with authorization from their governments, presenting such plans as their governments are considering or have adopted for present and post-war colonial procedure.

3. representatives of religious and philanthropic bodies with programs of post-war colonial polity and action.

I am wondering if in this way we could not get a conference based on a maximum of facts rather than mere opinion, and out of which a picture of colonial plans and conditions might come.

What do you think of this plan? Have you any suggestions? Can you give me names of any colonial representatives whom you would suggest inviting? What organizations which you represent would probably be willing to take part in this conference and help me in planning it?

I shall be glad to have your reaction and advice.

Very sincerely yours,

W. E. B. Du Bois

Mr. Langston Hughes
% Alfred A. Knopf
501 Madison Avenue
New York, N. Y.

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Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois wishes to announce that hereafter his business address will be at the pent-house atop 23 West 26th Street, New York 10, New York. He will pursue his literary work and will also cooperate with the Council on African Affairs on matters affecting the Negro peoples. His telephone is Murray Hill 3-7894. He will maintain his New York residence at 409 Edgecombe Avenue, and his home at 2302 Montebello Terrace, Baltimore 14, Maryland.

APRIL 4, 1950

New York, New York

Dear Dr. Du Bois:

I have just received from Sweden a beautiful anthology of Negro
edited by Thorsten Jonsson and
poetry called, MORK SÅNG, / published by Albert Bonniers Forlag, Stockholm,
by Birger Lundquist
1949, with very beautiful black and white drawings and decorations. I
thought you would be interested to know that it contains some of your
poetry....My own new book, a collection of Harlem humor, SIMPLE SPEAKS HIS MIND,
appears April 14th.

Send note to lady in Cleveland
who is doing compilation of Lang's
foreign works and inform her of this,
stating it it contains work from Lucy
Terry to present time.

SENT TO:

GWENDOLYN BROOKS

GWENDOLYN BROOKS
HAROLD TELEMAQUE
DU BOIS
ROBERT E. HAYDEN
FRANK HORNE
BRUCE McM. WRIGHT
MARGARET WALKER
ARNA BONTEMPS
STERLING BROWN
ANGELINA W. GRIMKE

DR. W. E. B. DU BOIS, HIS DAUGHTER AND GRANDDAUGHTER, WISH YOU TO KNOW OF THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE, NINA GOMER DU BOIS, ON JUNE TWENTY-SIXTH 1950, IN THE EIGHTIETH YEAR OF HER LIFE AND THE FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR OF THEIR MARRIAGE. SHE LIES BURIED BESIDE THE BODY OF HER FIRST-BORN SON, BELOW A LITTLE HILL AT GREAT BARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS. THE LOVE OF ALL WHO KNEW HER WILL KEEP HER MEMORY GREEN.

2417 NORTH PULASKI STREET
BALTIMORE 17, MARYLAND

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