The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson

This Pickering edition of Adam Ferguson's correspondence contains over 400 letters, most of which have never before been published. The correspondence includes letters between Ferguson and Adam Smith, David Hume and Alexander Carlyle and many other central figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.

The Fergusons had three daughters and four sons, and Ferguson was concerned with their education and career right up to his death. At the age of ninety-two he was advising his son, John, on the advancement of John's naval career.

Biographical Introduction Chronology Letters: Correspondents include: Lord Findlater, Adam Smith, Lord Milton, John Fletcher, John Home, Gilbert Elliott, David Hume, George Drummond, Katy Burnet, James Burnet, Baron d'Holbach, William Pulteney, John Macpherson, William Creech, Lord Stanhope, Duke of Chandos, Lord Chesterfield, George Washington, William Eden, Henry Laurens, John Wisherspoon, William Knox, Sir WIlliam Erskine, Admiral Gambier, Edward Mayne, Thomas de Grey Jr., Sir Henry Clinton, Alexander Carlyle, Earl of Carlisle, Sir James Wright, John Robinson, James Chalmer, Bishop Douglas, Hugh Blair, Christopher Wyvill, Alexander Adam, Gen. Fletcher Campbell, Sir George Colebrooke, Thomas Cadell, Lord Melville, Lord Shelburne Appendices, Bibliography, Index