Joseph Hume

(1767-1844)

NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: Hume, Joseph (1767–1844), translator and writer LBT ID: JoHume1844	B/BAP: 1767 DIED: 1844-08-07
SOURCES: Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); DNB
A clerk in the Victualling Office at Somerset House; he was a translator of Dante and friend of Godwin, Lamb, Hazlitt, and Henry Crabb Robinson.
REFERENCES TO Joseph Hume: Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt, [10 November 1805] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 18 May 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, [25 February 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt VIII Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 9 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XIX Found 2: ¶ 23 ¶ n1 Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 49 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VII. 1806-1811 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1805 Found 1: ¶ 12 Letters: 1807 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Letters: 1815 Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 Letters: 1822 Found 1: ¶ 5 Letters: 1830 Letters: 1832 Found 1: ¶ 1