Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Thatcher family papers (1881-1904) consist of the missionary journals and letters of Roy Davis Thatcher and Diana Bean Thatcher. The Diana Bean missionary journals consist of five books, dating from October 1901 to January 1904. In these books, Bean records her daily activities as a missionary in Bradford and London, England. She writes of her feelings of excitement and satisfaction as well as her feelings of loneliness and despair. Additionally, Bean's journals provide a great...