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 Who can say that the perusal of this sketch can fail to benefit and inspire our young girls. Does it not show what can be done by them, if they will? Miss Britton is not an isolated case of hardships surmounted,—an honorable place gained among the world's busy workers; for the colored race possesses many women of brain, nerve, and energy, who, when left to wage a hand-to-hand combat with adversity, fight along bravely and well; and in the end come off victorious.

This lady, a writer of much culture, was born in Virginia. Her parents, when she was quite young, moved to Detroit, and Meta found her way into the mixed schools of that city, where she graduated as valedictorian of a class of fifty-three pupils, only four of whom were Afro-Americans. She afterward took a normal course at Fenton College of Central Michigan. She began to teach school, but owing to declining health she had to return home, when she entered The Plaindealer office, and began a most successful career as a writer for newspapers.

She is a woman of most excellent traits of character, and has a prolific and productive brain. In her newspaper experience she has written for other publications, but her work on The Plaindealer has been marked with the most fruitful results.

Miss Pelham is not so well known as many lady writers of less ability,—because, in her entire writings, she has used no nom de plume, or signature. It is thought that she will soon edit a particular part of The Plaindealer. As it now is, she is a general writer upon the editorial staff.

The Plaindealer, in its anniversary issue of May, 1888,