This collection contains the original bound diary of William Budge, written while serving an LDS mission in Europe, and covers April 1851 to 1855. It also includes three compact discs which contain a digital copy of the diary and a color printout of the digital files. The front part of the journal contains a genealogy record of Budge’s father and mother while the remainder of the journal contains a brief synopsis of his conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Scotland, his missionary activities in Europe, and intermittent transcriptions of letters to and from various government officials and members of the LDS Church.