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Name : Adam Ferguson

Dates : born 1723–died 1816

Nationality : Scottish

Occupation : churchman; historian; sociologist; university teacher

Correspondents include : Sir John Macpherson, Baronet Macpherson of Calcutta and Lauriston; John Fletcher Campbell; Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl Stanhope

Current document count : 397 written; 72 received . . . . 

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