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Letter from M.H. Arbuthnot
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Mary Helen Arbuthnot, née Anstruther, was born on December 31, 1839, in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, the daughter of Philip Anstruther (1802-1862), Colonial Secretary of Ceylon and Mary Frances Stewart-Mackenzie (1819-1913).
She was a keen Christian, one of the founders of the Women's Protestant Union and a supporter of the Women's Protestant Movement. In 1858, she married William Reierson Arbuthnot (1826-1913), and they had fourteen children. She died on May 21, 1912, in Sussex, England.
Letter from M.H. Arbuthnot to John William Dawson, written from Plaw-Hatch, East Grinstead, on Women’s Protestant Union letterhead.