Date: 1720
"Poetry is called the image of the mind, / In mine my soul and body both are joined."
preview | full record— Sansom, Martha [née Fowke] (1690-1736)
Date: 1757
"Did I wait upon Bishop Gibson to acquaint him that I was a Free-thinker, that my mind was a tabula rasa!"
preview | full record— Bower, Archibald (1686-1766)