Scope and Contents This journal is a daily account of Thatcher's activities as a missionary in London. He writes of tracting, speaking at street meetings, and visiting church members and investigators. Along with the accounts of his own work, Thatcher's journal provides information about other missionaries serving in the London area during the same time period. Thatcher records his trips to outlying towns and describes the landscape in some detail. In October 1902, he makes the first reference to fellow...

Scope and Contents Thatcher continues his account of his missionary work in London. He writes often of his friendly associations with other missionaries and of visiting historic sights in and around London. Thatcher writes of receiving his mission release in December 1902, and of bidding farewell to church members, friends, and fellow missionaries. He writes of his return trip aboard the Ottoman and describes the other passengers on the boat. Thatcher's final entry is written while still aboard the Ottoman on...

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This history provides information on the Bean family armorial coat, family crest, and gives brief biographical sketches of prominent individuals in the Bean family. Folder 2 contains a photocopied version.

Scope and Contents This biographical sketch begins with Smoot's birth in South Carolina in 1809 and provides information about her parents and grandparents. It gives an account of her first marriage, which ended in divorce, and of her baptism into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She married Abraham Owen Smoot in 1838 and was among the Mormon pioneers that traveled to the Salt Lake Valley. The biography contains excerpts from Smoot's diary as well as letters she wrote to her husband while he...

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Blessing given to Diana Bean by her grandfather, Abraham O. Smoot, at the time of her birth.

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Newsclippings, Thatcher family genealogy, and Diana Bean record book giving a daily account of tracts given out, gospel conversations held, and meetings attended while on her mission in England. Photocopies are in folder 9.

Scope and Contents The journal begins as Bean is leaving her home in Provo, Utah, to serve an LDS Church mission in Great Britain. She is traveling with a fellow missionary, Margaret Thurman, of whom she often mentions in her entries. Bean describes the trip from Utah to the eastern seaboard and then on to Liverpool where Thurman and she are assigned to the Leeds Conference in Bradford, England. Journal entries written shortly after her arrival in Bradford describe Bean's struggle to adjust to her new...

Scope and Contents Entries in this journal suggest that Bean has become more settled in her life as a missionary. Her daily activities include tracting, street meetings, and visiting with church members and investigators. She writes of sight-seeing in London in her free time and of her impression of the city. Additionally, she writes of her association with the other missionaries in the London area and of preparations for mission conferences. It is also in this journal that Bean makes reference to a friendly...

Scope and Contents In this, her third missionary journal, Bean continues to describe her daily activities as a missionary in London. Of particular interest in this book is a June 27 entry in which Bean writes of meeting Joseph Smith, III. "This evening . . . I went to the Stratford Town Hall to hear Joseph Smith, the son of the prophet, speak upon 'Mormonism.' He spoke at some length upon faith, repentance, baptism, and eternal judgment, all of which I could follow him in. He made only a few remarks about the...

Scope and Contents This journal contains numerous entries in which Bean describes her growing attraction to Elder Jessie Porter and of the constraints placed on the relationship because they were both missionaries. She describes at some length occasions when the two of them broke away from their missionary work to enjoy the sights of London. Referring to a flower show she and Porter attended, Bean writes, "It was all pleasurable but not more pleasurable than the quiet stroll on such a beautiful Autumn day...I...

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This journal consists of five entries Bean made during the last month of her mission. In these final entries, Bean continues to make a daily record of her activities and concludes with an account of a trip she and Elder Porter made to see an old cathedral in Canterbury.

Scope and Contents This thirty-seven page journal was written while Thatcher was living at his home in Logan, attending the Utah State Agriculture College. In his daily entries, which consist of one to two lines, Thatcher writes of the weather, family members and friends, church activities he participated in, and his studies at the agricultural college. In a July 22 entry, Thatcher writes of attending a lecture by William Jennings Bryan on bimetalism. Speaking of Bryan he states, "He is one of the best...

Scope and Contents The journal begins 5 October 1900 with Thatcher's ordination and setting apart as an LDS Church missionary to Switzerland. He writes of his journey across the ocean on the U.S.S. Commonwealth and lists the names of other missionaries traveling with him. Thatcher arrived in Berne, Switzerland, October 31, and was assigned to the French speaking town of Neuchatel. In early journal entries, Thatcher expresses his frustration in learning to speak the French language and the seeming lack of...