The archives of the Presbyterian Historical Society are held in Philadelphia. Notable files related to leprosy in this collection are the personal papers of Eugene Kellersberger and the records of the Presbyterian Church, India Mission, 1891-1972, which include the work of the Punjab mission at Ludhiana, Saharanpur, Sabathu and Allahabad, Naini, Miraj, and Ambala (including papers of the Superintendent, Sam Higginbottom), and Soonchun and the Wilson Leprosy Centre in Korea. There are files relating to many other leprosy colonies, including Chacachacare, Trinidad; Agua de Dios, Colombia; Pirapitinguí, Brazil; and Bethesda, Suriname.

Some of the Presbyterian Historical Society's files are accessible online at the PHS's digital repository, Pearl (https://digital.history.pcusa.org/).

A document with further information and detail on the files related to leprosy in this archive can be accessed here (PDF, 16 pages). Descriptions are taken from the online finding aids supplied by the Society.

For more information on the collection in general, see http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections.

Entry created December 2006 and updated February 2016