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280 Doubtless had fortune favored Mrs. Lee with requisite leisure and more robust health she would be reckoned one of the writers of this country.

In the city of Philadelphia Mrs. Lee is identified with the Ladies' Christian Union Association, the W. C. T. U., and the King's Daughters, also the Women's Mite Missionary Society. In the Afro-American Press Association "meeting of 1892 Mrs. Lee represented the Ringwood Journal and was elected vice-president of the organization.

Were all the facts mentioned, here wanting, the peculiar womanly spirit, the elevated and the positive personal character of Mrs. Mary E. Lee, would constitute her a worthy subject for the study of young Afro-American women. Every one who knows her bears witness to her sterling qualities and fine sense of proprieties. By the request of her friends she expects to publish a book of poems. This book will, no doubt, be looked for and read with great interest by our aspiring young women.

The lady under whose name this narrative appears was born in New York City, August 26, 1861, the daughter of Holloway W. and Mary Rebecca Hunt, both of whom were born in Newark, N. J., and moved to New York some time prior to the advent of their daughter.