Letters
For For readers who want Penington's spiritual counsel in short pieces, in letters to particular people.
Penington's letters of spiritual counsel to his family, friends and fellow Quakers, many written from prison at Aylesbury and Reading. John Kendall first collected them in 1796; John Barclay published a larger collection in 1828, and it was reprinted through the nineteenth century.
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Free downloads
- OTHER Letters of Isaac Penington (Quaker Heritage Press (letters))Penington's letters in the Quaker Heritage Press online edition: 116 letters, each on its own page, transcribed from the nineteenth-century collections (Kendall's 1796 and Barclay's 1828, and Bevan's Memoirs). Free to read in the browser.
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E.0Y57YE.3Report - PDF Letters of Isaac Penington (Internet Archive (Kendall, 1796)) PD1796The first collection of his letters, edited by John Kendall and published in 1796. A Google scan of a library copy on the Internet Archive.
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E.YX73S2.TReport - PDF Letters of Isaac Penington (Internet Archive (Barclay, 1828)) PD1828John Barclay's collection of the letters (1828), larger than Kendall's of 1796. A scan on the Internet Archive.
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E.NGKT54.0Report - PDF Letters of Isaac Penington (Internet Archive (Barclay, 1829)) PD1829The 1829 printing of John Barclay's collection of the letters. A scan of a library copy on the Internet Archive.
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E.QQJDDQ.GReport - PDF Letters of Isaac Penington (Internet Archive (1879)) PD1879An 1879 edition of the letters, issued by the Book Association of Friends. A Google scan of a library copy on the Internet Archive.
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E.1412MK.1Report
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