"She has given you besides some perspicuity, which qualifies you to distinguish interesting objects; a warmth of imagination which enables you to think with quickness; you often extract useful reflections from objects which presented none to my mind: you have a tender and a well meaning heart, you love description, and your pencil, assure yourself, is not a bad one for the pencil of a farmer; it seems to be held without any labour; your mind is what we called at Yale college a <i>Tabula rasa</i>, where spontaneous and strong impressions are delineated with facility."
Letters from an American Farmer
5 entries in ESTC (1782, 1783, 1793).<br>
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See <u>Letters from an American Farmer; Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs, Not Generally Known.</u> (Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T133102">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;