Thomas Hume, Irish-born physician in London. A friend of the poet Thomas Moore, Dr. Hume and his wife Caroline were the court-appointed foster parents of Charles and Ianthe, the children of Percy Bysshe Shelley with Harriet Westbrook, following the suicide of their mother. · To Brooks, Son Dixon, bankers : 1 autograph check signed : 12 Oct 1818 : (S'ANA 0254) : for £30 to be drawn from the account of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Published with commentary as SC 499 in Shelley and his Circle v. VI, p. 695.
Biographical/historical: Thomas Hume, Irish-born physician in London. A friend of the poet Thomas Moore, Dr. Hume and his wife Caroline were the court-appointed foster parents of Charles and Ianthe, the children of Percy Bysshe Shelley with Harriet Westbrook, following the suicide of their mother.
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