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Hume and letter
Rousseau's letter to Hume, in which he articulates the perceived misconduct, sparked an exchange which was published in Paris and received with great interest at the time.
In May 1834, Mackenzie published a letter from British Reformer Joseph Hume in the pages of the Advocate in which Hume called for independence for the colonies, even by means of violent rebellion if necessary.
In 1757 Wilkie published ‘ The Epigoniad ,’ in nine books, based on the fourth book of the ‘ Iliad ,’ and written in heroic couplets in the manner of Alexander Pope's ‘ Homer .’ To a second edition in 1759 he appended an ingenious apologetic ‘ Dream in the manner of Spenser .’ On the appearance of this edition Hume warmly praised ‘ The Epigoniad ’ in a letter to the Critical Review, complaining that the journal had unduly depreciated the poem when first published.
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Hume.
Hume was best known for his critical review in December 1950 of a concert by Margaret Truman and the scathing letter he later received from her father, President Harry S. Truman.

Hume and 24
* Gary Hume elected 24 May, 2001
*" Kant ’ s Relation to Hume and Leibniz ", The Philosophical Review, 24 ( 1915 ) No. 3: 288 – 96
Prior to the completion of the Pretty River Parkway in Collingwood in the 1970s, Highway 26 was routed through Collingwood along Hume Street, before making a 90 degree right turn ( north ) at the intersection with Highway 24 ( Now Simcoe Road 124, Hurontario Street ) with which it was concurrent until Highway 24's terminus at First Street, where Highway 26 makes a 90 degree left turn ( west ) onto First Street, continuing on the present route.

Hume and January
* January 13 – Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont, Scottish statesman ( d. 1724 )
John Hume, KCSG ( born 18 January 1937 ) is a former Irish politician from Derry, Northern Ireland.
After residing in Leipzig for a time, he returned to Edinburgh where in January 1757 he succeeded David Hume as librarian to the Faculty of Advocates ( see Advocates ' Library ), but soon relinquished this office on becoming tutor in the family of the Earl of Bute.
Nonetheless, all but one Indian official remained loyal and Hume resumed his position in Etawah in January 1858.
Joseph Hume FRS ( 22 January 1777 – 20 February 1855 ) was a Scottish doctor and Radical MP, born in Montrose, Angus.
* Hume raises Irish peace hopes The Independent, 31 January 1996
It is some measure of the regard in which he was held by parliamentary Radicals that in January 1833, against his own wish, he was nominated by the Scottish MP Joseph Hume to become Speaker of the first reformed House of Commons.
In defence of public morals and Evangelical Tory dominance in the city, the Reverend Abraham Hume, Anglican priest and lecturer, delivered a detailed attack on Vestiges at the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society on 13 January 1845, demonstrating that the book conflicted with standard specialist scientific texts on nebulae, fossils and embryos, and accusing it of manipulative novelistic techniques occupying " the debatable ground between science and fiction ".
James B. Hume ( January 23, 1827 – May 18, 1904 ) was one of the American West's premier lawmen.

Hume and 1825
Hume married Elizabeth Dight on 8 November 1825 at St Philip's Church in Sydney.
On 25 March 1825 Governor Brisbane mentioned the discoveries of Hovell and Hume in a dispatch and said that he intended to send a vessel to Western Port to have it explored.
Twenty-two years later, in 1825, James Meehan, who had accompanied John Murray in exploring Port Phillip Bay 18 month earlier, was to tell Hume that there were no large islands in Port Phillip, and that therefore had reached Port Phillip, not Western Port as Hovell had insisted.
In 1825 the parish records from the Parish Church of St. Laurence, Wormley were lodged with Sir Abraham Hume in Wormleybury.

Hume and immediately
Casula is the first suburb immediately south of Liverpool on the Hume Highway and the Main Southern Railway between Sydney and Melbourne.

Hume and after
David Hume, after a relentless analysis of the mind, concluded that consciousness consists of fleeting mental states.
However, the position was given to William Cleghorn, after Edinburgh ministers petitioned the town council not to appoint Hume because he was seen as an atheist.
( A popular story, consistent with some historical evidence, suggests the street was named after Hume.
Hume told him he sincerely believed it a " most unreasonable fancy " that there might be life after death.
“ He is plainly mad, after having long been maddish ”, Hume wrote to a friend.
The first Europeans to encounter the river were Hamilton Hume and William Hovell, who crossed the river where Albury now stands in 1824: Hume named it the Hume River after his father.
In 1830 Captain Charles Sturt reached the river after travelling down its tributary the Murrumbidgee River and named it the Murray River in honour of the then British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Sir George Murray, not realising it was the same river that Hume and Hovell had encountered further upstream.
( Since the assumption is itself vindicated by induction, it can in no way " prove " the validity of induction-an endeavor virtually abandoned after Hume demonstrated its futility two centuries ago ).
Another version of this tale has the skeleton discovered at Hume a few years after the battle and re-interred at Holyrood Abbey.
OzOpera was established after the merger of the AO with the VSO in 1996 under the Directorship of Lindy Hume.
* any of several prominent landmarks named after Hamilton Hume:
The township is named after the first white settler in the area, Walter Hume, who arrived and built the first house in the 1850s.
It took many years after Order 11 for the Hume area to recover.
During his life and after his death, Butler influenced many philosophers, including David Hume, Thomas Reid, and Adam Smith.
The courage, resource and bushmanship of Hume were important factors in surmounting their many difficulties, and after a journey of 11 weeks they came to Corio Bay near the present site of Geelong.
The Canberra suburb of Hume was named after him, as was the federal electoral Division of Hume.
City of Hume, an outer metro council in Melbourne is named after him.
Its autapomorphies have certainly puzzled 20th century ornithologists, but due to its remote range and nondescript appearance, it was little studied and not suspected to be anything but an aberrant ground jay for more than 100 years after its description by Hume.
Hume Cronyn, one of five children, was born in London, Ontario, Canada, the son of Hume Blake Cronyn, Sr., a businessman and a Member of Parliament for London ( after whom the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory and asteroid ( 12050 ) Humecronyn are named ) and Frances Amelia ( née Labatt ), an heiress of the brewing company of the same name.

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