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WORK S

O F

JOHN WOOLMAN.

IN TWO PARTS.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR AND SOLD BY T. LETCHWORTH,
AT N°. 33, TOOLEY-STREET, SOUTHWARK.

M.DCC.LXXV.

ADVERTISEMENT.

TO THE

READER.

T'

HE manufcript JOURNAL of our late friend, JOHN WOOLMAN, was ended in England; where he also finished all his labours. It appears, by a letter which he fent, in his laft illness, to a friend in London, that he did not intend the whole fhould be printed, and that he defired the faid friend to revife what he had written in this nation, and leave out fuch parts as he fhould think proper. It was, notwithstanding, fent entire, without any alteration, to America; where it was foon after printed, together with feveral Tracts which had been publifhed in his life-time. But, as fome paffages in the Journal contain obfervations which appear to have been intended as private memorandums only, and others relate to circumftances which happened in his native country, not expedient to be preferved on record in this nation, it is apprehended that the following ABRIDGEMENT of

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