If memory serves me right, I was the only Negro in the hall.

The gentleman came to me and asked if I would make a speech.
I told him I had already delivered one address, besides several sermons I had preached, and I thought that I would not speak again during my stay.

I accepted the invitation, however, and spoke.
The Professor then tells how he was introduced as one whose addresses were "among the ablest ever delivered in London." Also he gives his speech in full.

Great events followed.

His distinguished unnamed friend, the "close relation of the Queen," came to him soon after, he says, and asked him if he had "ever been to the palace." Continues Latta: He said to me, "If you will come over before you leave the city, and call to see me, I will take you to the palace with me and introduce you to the Queen." I told him I would do so, that I had heard a good deal about the royal throne, and I would be very much interested to see the palace.