The Union Farm: Henry Drinker's Experiment in Deriving Profit from Virtue
a member of the Quaker establishment in Philadelphia until his LjL death at the age of seventy-five in 1809, indeed one of its most X jL. revered oligarchs, Henry Drinker is now largely recognizable as the husband of Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker. It is to her journal stretching over a period of some fifty years that scholars turn for details of Philadelphia domestic life in the second half of the eighteenth cen tury, for an appreciation of the Quaker conscience which brought Henry Drinker and other Friends of similar persuasion to an enforced confinement in Virginia during the winter of 1777-177 8, for the dirge of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793, and for a glimpse of a woman of intelligence who relied on the journal to confirm her own sense of identity. Elizabeth Drinker is full of admiration for her "H.D.," but as seen through his wife's eyes, Henry Drinker appears curiously