Diaries and other items pertaining to the first missionaries to Pitcairn Island were given to the Heritage Room of the library at Andrews University by Mrs. Bessie Ellyson of Paradise, California. The room now has the complete set of log books and diaries written by Pastor and Mrs. E.H. Gates, Seventh-day Adventist missionaries who spent 1890-94 on the island. Clockwise from left are daily diaries and journals of the Gates, poems about Pitcairn by an unknown author, photos of the Gates, a folder containing souvenir handkerchiefs given to Mrs. Gates, and an autograph album from the Pitcairn islanders to Pastor and Mrs. Gates
