I am deeply and humbly constrained to present you with this letter. For many
years, indeed throughout my mature life, I had been a proud but disinterested
admirer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and her peoples. The
history of Your Majesty’s country is replete with heroism, discoveries which
were near miracles, and institutions of higher learning of the most outstanding
character and achievement. Britain, though insular and small in size and
capacity, had centuries ago proved conclusively, to the world that for any
community and nation to reach the acme of greatness and respectability, it is
not quantity that counts but quality and the type of people who make up the
nation.
