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Owen W. and Janet K. Roberts Papers

The Owen W. and Janet K. Roberts Papers document the Roberts' time in Cairo, the Congo and Nigeria while Owen Roberts was a member of the Foreign Service. The papers consist of nearly two hundred original letters written between 1955 and 1957, describing the Roberts' life in Cairo, as well as transcriptions of a majority of the Cairo letters, bound and titled \Letters from Cairo, 1955-1957.\ The Roberts Papers also include bound transcripts of letters from Roberts' Foreign Service in Africa, entitled, \Letters from the Congo\ and \Letters from Nigeria.\ In addition, the bound transcripts contain Owen Roberts' remarks on the Congo and Nigeria for Georgetown University's Oral Diplomatic History program in 1991.