… underpinnings of her enduring friendships with David Garrick and Robert Liston. 1 1 . Mme Riccoboni's Letters to David Hume, David Garrick, Robert Liston, ed. James C. Nicholls (Oxford, The Voltaire Foundation, 1976). Riccoboni wrote her … Young, Joseph Addison, and Alexander Pope. In Paris, she also rubbed shoulders with figures such as Richard Burke, David Hume, Adam Smith, and Philip Changuion, the British ambassador to France. In 1765, she entered into correspondence with … had its own share of unsavoury attributes. To make peace with Garrick following her comments, she admitted, echoing Hume—during a visit to Paris in 1764, the philosopher had gifted Riccoboni with a copy of his History of England—, that …