Guardian: Feb 5 1963 P8: ‘London Letter’ (Gossip Column): subheading: From another country: James Baldwin, the American writer, arrived in London today, which is publication day of his latest novel, “Another Country”. He is generally credited in the United States with being this generation’s successor to Richard Wright as a Negro spokesman and so, fittingly enough, he has come here almost direct from talking with James Meredith, Mississippi University’s first Negro student, whom he summed up as a “moralist” in more ways than the segregationists down there seem to realise.

Mr Baldwin has also recently been talking with Dick Gregory, the Negro satirist, who he thought was talented enough to blossom into an actor. He is hoping to meet some of the West Indian and African residents here, though one fears he will find the British Negro suffering from some of the prejudices he may have thought he had left behind in another country.