Coffee cup charge

she worked, was primarily a flax works, although they also worked withjute.

By the 1870s Baxters was the largest flax company in the world, having overtaken Marshalls of Leeds. Mary Slessor’s mother gave her occupation in 1861 as ‘linen power loom weaver’.

It is likely daughter Mary followed suit. Her employment in 1871 is listed as ‘power loom weaver’. By then her mother was running a grocer’s shop in the Stobswell area of Dundee.

The feature also states: “Mary arrived as a missionary in Ethiopia in August 1876.” In fact, in 1876 Mary Slessor sailed from Liverpool to Calabar aboard the SS Ethiopia to begin her missionary work.

The Calabar Mission had been established by the United Secession Church, forerunner of the United Presbyterian Church, in 1846.

IAN MCCRAW Pitcairn Road, Downfield,

Dundee Your editorial “Coffee cup charge a rational idea” (31 March) makes a lot of sense. For some years, conscious of the waste and resource implications, I have insisted I didn’t want a plastic top on my coffee. The most common reason for insisting on a plastic top seems to be the catch-all health and safety.

ALASTAIR GUILD Haymarket, Edinburgh When I think back on the anti-catholic prejudice and hatred I’ve encountered then it’s clear the culprits are usually intolerant Atheists. Yes, sometimes they claim they are Protestants but they’re not. – Paxv I know... let’s have a referendum about whether Scotland should be wholly Catholic or wholly Protestant. Makes Scottish education policy which separates children from an early age is to blame. All education should be secular. –mikex