This collection consists of a microfilm copy of records kept by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge on the subject of the Salzburg emigration. The records, entitled, "The Protestant Exiles: Salzburg Emigration," consist of letter books, an account book, and an autographed manuscripts. The manuscripts consist of twenty-eight items, including the original specification (list of names) of the first 45 emigrants to Ebenezer, Georgia. It was the custom of the SPCK to transcribe all incoming letters into a letter book, after which the loose papers were destroyed The first two letter books are in the hand of Henry Newman, then the secretary of the society. The first letter book, 1732-1733, concerns the treatment and condition of the Salzburgers and the preliminary arrangements for emigration, up to their reaching Dover, and ending with a transcript of the list of names. These are mainly letters from the Reverend Samuel Urlsperger (or transmitted by him), but also include such writers as Professor Francke (Halle, Saxony); the Reverend Ziegenhagen (the King's German Chaplin); Baron von Reck (Envoy at Ratisbon); Mr. Shorer (Intendant at Landsberg); Mr. Lowther (Rotterdam); Phillip von Reck (Commissary); Captain Thomas Coram; the Reverend Bolzius and the Reverend Gronau (Missionaries). Also included are a memorial regarding the condition of the Salzburgers and Hungarian Protestants by the Dutch Minister at Ratisbon (collected evidence), a collection of extracts from letters and documents sent by the Reverend Urlsperger about the prosecutions, depositions made by some of the 250 Salzburgers who emigrated to Garstein in August of 1733, an intimation given from the pulpit of St. Anne's in Augsburg concerning the emigration to Georgia, instructions given to the Commissary by the Reverend Uslperger, a relation addressed to "The Lords Commissioners for the New Colony in Georgia in South Carolina in America and to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge concerning the departure of the first transport of Salzburgers" (4 pages). Several letters written from Hungary (1733) on the conditions there are included. The second letter book, 1732-1734, consists of outgoing correspondence, mainly by Henry Newman, responding to correspondence included in the first letter book. The third letter book, 1734-1735, containing incoming correspondence, contains letters concerning the arrival of the emigrants and the establishment of Ebenezer and its church. It also contains lists of names of subsequent parties of emigrants. And includes letters from baron von Reck; the Reverend Urlsperger; John Vat (Ebenezer); the missionaries, Philip von Reck; the Reverend Sam Wesley; the Reverend Quincy (Chaplain at Savannah); a correspondence between General Oglethorpe and the Reverend Samuel Wesley, and accounts collected from various places, on the conditions in Salzburg, Carinthia, and Bohemia. The fourth letter book, 1734-1739, containing outgoing correspondence, contains letters responding to those in the third letter book. Included are letters to John Wesley in Savannah, General Oglethorpe (founder of Georgia and its first governor), and the Reverend George Whitefield of Savannah (founder of the Bethesda Orphan Home). Also included in the collection are three account books, dated 1731, recording receipts and disbursements of the Salzburger Fund.
