Journal of John Woolman and A Plea for the Poor

Woolman's "e;Journal"e; was first published in 1774 (shortly after his death). His life, as recorded by himself, was the finest flower of a unique Quaker culture, whose focus, as Howard H. Brinton has put is, was not on the literary or plastic arts but on "e;life itself in home, meeting and community,"e; a life which was an "e;artistic creation as beautiful in its simplicity and proportion as was ...