Mrs Helen I.M.R. Paton (Nellie, 1877-1905) was a daughter of the Reverend H.A. Robertson, who was a missionary on Erromango, New Hebrides (Vanuatu). Nellie Paton was also wife of the Rev. Frederick J. Paton, a Presbyterian missionary to the New Hebrides.

With occasional gaps, the journals give day by day accounts of Mrs Paton's life as a Presbyterian missionary's wife at Pangkuma, Malekula. They complement her husband's journals (see PMB 32).