The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson
Edited by Vincenzo Merolle
with an introduction by Jane B Fagg
The Pickering Masters
978 1 85196 140 5: 234x156mm: £160.00/$280.00
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This Pickering Masters edition of Adam Ferguson's correspondence contains over 400 letters, most of which have never before been published. The collection includes two recently discovered letters to Lord Shelburne, now in the possession of the National Library of Scotland, as well as other key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Contents
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
Reviews
‘Vincenzo Merolle’s fine two volume edition of Ferguson’s correspondence...gives an opportunity to reassess Ferguson’s intellectual contribution while learning a great deal more about the man himself.’
– Malcolm Jack, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
‘Scholars maintaining the surge of interest in the Scottish Enlightenment and, in particular, the work of moral philosopher Adam Ferguson, will welcome this collection uniting previously known manuscripts from various libraries in Britain and the United States. This work is very welcome, and will be a prominent addition to any collection in Scottish Enlightenment studies, as well as British and European intellectual history.’
– Michael Kugler, Scotia