1-627-495 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

A note from Thomas Coram, the founder of the 'Foundling Hospital', 1747, (1840). A note to the steward or matron from philanthropist Captain Thomas Coram (1668-1751) who established the Foundling Hospital in London where destitute mothers could anonymously leave their babies. Illustration from Historical and Literary Curiosities consisting of Fac-similies of Original Documents, by Charles John Smith, (Henry G Bohn, London, 1840).