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Rh account of bad healtli had to resign, and afterwards traveled in the interest of Wiberforce University, lecturing with marked success, and was particularly welcomed at Hampton Normal School in Virginia. Now, having been engaged in school-teaching North and South in which there was much of the missionary spirit, and having also completed a course in elocution, she served several years as an important factor in "The Wilberforce Grand Concert Company," which also traveled in the interest of that well-known institution.

From the day of graduation at the famous Wilberforce University she has continued to grow in public favor and popularity as one greatly eminent in her chosen profession; entering so fully into the real spirit of the author, and making such vivid descriptions, that she renders perfectly the idea of the writer, as the following will show: