e your pleasure, I will do myself the honor serving you
on Monday evening next, or any other evening during the week, by a
discourse on the 'Political Destiny of the African Race,' and
assure you of the pleasure with which I have the honor to be,

Your most obedient servant,
M. R. DELANY

Col. B. P. Yates; Hon. D. B. Warner; S. F. McGill, M.D.; Hon. B. V.
R. James; Rev. Saml. Matthews; Urias McGill, Esq.; Rev. Edw. W.
Blyden; H. W. Dennis, Esq.; H. A. Johnson, Esq., District Attorney.

* * * * *

M. R. Delany, Esq.: Monrovia, July 14, 1859

SIR--We have the honor to acknowledge your note of to-day in reply
to an invitation of yesterday from us requesting that you would
favor us, with many others, with an address on to-morrow evening,
or at any other time agreeable to yourself. Having signified to us
that next Monday evening you would be pleased to comply with the
request, we tender you our thanks and will be happy to listen to a
discourse on the 'Political destiny of the African Race.'

We have the honor to be, very respectfully, &c., yours,

B. V. R. JAMES
SAML. MATTHEWS
And others

Reception

On Monday evening, the 19th of July, having addressed a crowded audience
in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Ex-Governor McGill in the chair, T.
M. Chester, Esq., Secretary; Ex-President Roberts rose and in a short
speech, in the name of the Liberians, welcomed me to Africa. By a vote
of thanks and request to continue the discourse on a subsequent
evening, this request was complied with on the following Tuesday
evening.

Dr. M. R. Delany, Monrovia, July 28, 1859

DEAR SIR--The undersigned citizens of Monrovia having been much
edified by listening to two very interesting lectures delivered by
you in the Methodist church, avail themselves of this method to
express their appreciation of the same, and to respectfully request
that you will favor the community with a popular lecture on
'Physiology' on Friday evening, the 29th inst.

HENRY J. ROBERTS
SAML. F. MCGILL
B. P. YATES
HENRY W. DENNIS
EDWD. W. BLYDEN

Public Lecture

The reply to this polite invitation of Doctors Roberts and McGill, and
others, having been mislaid, I simply remark here that the request was
complied with on the evening of August