1. Frank Jewsbury's copy of a proposed letter to Sarah Ann Newton, dated from 59 Berners St., 4 July, sent to JWC, read: “Before returning home to Manchr I must on a/c of your declining to accompany me to Mrs. Carlyle to hear my denial in her presence, give it you in writing— All that you have told Mrs. Carlyle about Mrs. Jackson and the 2 letters you received in March 1851is untrue as regards me. I never saw the lady in my life— I never spoke to her in my life.— I never heard of or from her in my life—
I never wrote to her in my life.— Every thing that you state to the contrary is untrue— I have now Madam to accuse you of
a very serious charge, which is no less than that for some time past I believe you to have been fully aware of the untruth of your statements, but have nevertheless persisted in repeating them, and I do accuse you accordingly.— More than this I
also believe in my heart that you knew the individual who has assumed my name, and to screen that individual you have endeavoured to mystify our mutual friends
by these tales.— When my Solr waited upon you last Monday you could only give him the most evasive replies, and seeing that he was near & I a long way
of[f] you said that you could only prove your statements to me personally, and you sullied your lips with language most unfit for
a lady or indeed any woman— I have nevertheless left my home and … presented myself at your house yesterday—I have asked you
to go with me to Mrs. Carlyle and repeat your strange tale before me This you agreed to do, and your husband gave you permission to go— You then
would not go without him well knowing that he is forbidden Mrs. Carlyles house and that I could not take him there.— You talked of letters you have received but cannot produce; of people
of whose whereabouts you knew nothing, of conversations of which you have forgotten the material points, of having seen letters
in my hand writing which you cannot obtain … . Your husband assisted you by endeavouring in the most libellous manner (when
I suggested that some one had assumed my name) to fix the charge on some other of his Manchester friends.— Finally when you reluctantly started with me to Mrs Carlyle, your husband also with us he got out of the Cab saying he would not go, you followed him saying you would not go
without him, neither of you in reality daring to go, and in the Public Streets he seeks to quarrel, pushing you violently
towards me saying ‘Take her, take her,[’] to give bystanders and passers by some erroneous impression and acted and spoke more like a drunken idiot than a rational
man— I must not omit that before he gave you permission to go, he threatened that if you did go you must not come back again
to his house.— My last feelings for you both were profound sorrow, and I no longer bear any anger against either of you— In
this matter I no longer recognise the Mrs Nodes Newton of old. / F. J” (MS: NLS 2883.208). Mrs. Jackson was almost certainly not JWC's friend, a widow Catherine Jackson;
see JWC to JAC, 4 March 1850, 25:biographical note. It is not clear, even by inference from these letters, what the disagreement was about. Robert Newton's influence on his
sister, Elizabeth Paulet, is said to have been “disastrous” (TC to JWC, 25 Sept. 1849). TC had already warned JWC to “Keep away from” the Paulets, “holding thy nostrils if needful” (TC to JWC, 19 Sept. 1849). Had Robert Newton been making use of Frank Jewsbury's name in an illicit affair of his own? See JWC to FJ, [ca. 10 July?].
