The Journal of George Fox (original 1694; edition 1902)

The Nickalls version of The Journal of George Fox was first published in 1952 by Cambridge University Press.

This 1983 edition of Rufus Jones's 1908 version of The Journal of George Fox includes a 1963 introductory essay by Henry J. Cadbury and a new glossary-index.

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from the Preface: "This new edition of George Fox's Journal is designed to replace for the general reader the text prepared by Thomas Ellwood, which was first published in 1694 and has been many times reprinted without substantial alterations, in England until 1902, and in America until 1892. . . . George Fox, through most of his life, did not keep a journal in the ordinary sense of a nearly contemporary day-to-day record. It was also Fox's habit to dictate, in preference to writing himself, if there was an amanuensis at hand. In 1675, or possibly beginning in 1674, Fox dictated to Thomas Lower, his stepson-in-law, an autobiography down to the year of writing. This is now called the Spence MS. . . . The Spence MS. has been published verbatim under the title The Journal of George Fox, by Cambridge University Press, 1911, 2 volumes, with an introduction by T. Edmund Harvey and full editorial notes by Norman Penney. It is referred to as the Cambridge Journal." The present text is a condensed version of the 1911 text, which is a collection of a number of documents, journals and letters.

from the Preface: "The Journal of George Fox as here presented has as its basis the eighth (bicentenary) edition (1891) of the Journal as prepared by Thomas Ellwood and others, shortly after the death of the author, and published in 1694 (known as the Ellwood Text). This bicentenary edition has been carefully collated with the first, and additions have been made from the Journal as printed at the Cambridge University Press in 1911, verb et lit. from the original manuscripts (known as the Cambridge Text), and from the Short Journal of George Fox, now being edited from the hitherto unprinted manuscript for publication by the Cambridge University Press. In order to bring the Journal within the bounds of one volume, numerous excisions have been made from the Ellwood Text, consisting largely of papers written by Fox, and of the non-autographic portion referred to in the Appendix to this volume. . . . The resultant text, which will be known as the Tercentenary Text, will, it is believed, not only preserve that which is vital in the original manuscripts, but throw into greater relief those portions of the Journal which have caused it to earn the marked appreciation of such representative minds as those of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb, George M. Trevelyan, William James, and Josiah Royce."