Index


Nos. 1-58 link to the transcripts. All the letters have been transcribed but will appear here gradually as checked. When accessible the Nos. will be coloured to show the links have gone live.

‘No. 6’ stands for No. 6 Coleman Street Buildings, Newton’s address during this period.

‘Portswood Green’ was the Southampton home of Walter Taylor, where Newton spent many summer holidays.

Most of the letters are from John Newton. Most of the latter are from Betsy. She married in 1805, when her surname changed from Catlett to Smith.

The letters were pasted into a book in a random order. The British Library folio numbers are in the book page order.

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No. from date folio
1 No. 6 1 October 1793 ff. 21-22
2 No. 6 24 January 1794 ff. 23-24
3 No. 6 16 September 1794 ff. 59-60
4 - 1 October 1794 ff. 61-62
5 No. 6 3 January 1795 f. 56
6 No. 6 28 April 1795 ff. 76-77
7 No. 6 17 July 1795 ff. 78-79
8 No. 6 27 July 1796 ff. 52-53
9 - 15 August 1796 ff. 68-69
10 - 16 August 1796 ff. 72-73
11 Portswood Green 31 August 1796 ff. 54-55
12 No. 6 25 January 1797 ff. 48-49
13 No. 6 8 June 1797 ff. 19-20
14 - 13 June 1997 ff. 17-18
15 - 1 July 1797 f. 58
16 Southampton 5 August 1797 ff. 2-3
17 Portswood Green 24 August 1797 ff. 44-45
18 No. 6 22 September 1797 ff. 42-43
19 - October 1797 f. 57
20 No. 6 21 December 1797 ff. 46-47
21 No. 6 6 January 1798 ff. 27-28
22 No. 6 9 February 1798 ff. 33-34
23 No. 6 19 February 1798 ff. 25-26
24 No. 6 9 July 1798 ff. . 29-30
25 Portswood Green 4 August 1798 ff. 13-14
26 - 24 August 1798 ff. 80-81
27 - 7 December 1798 no ms*
28 No. 6 3 May 1799 f. 71
29 - 3 July 1799 f. 39
30 Portswood Green 27 July 1799 ff. 74-75
31 - 1 October 1799 ff. 31-32
32 - 5 July 1800 f. 65
33 Portswood Green 25 July 1800 f. 1
34 No. 6 26 September 1800 ff. 66-67
35 - 1 November 1800 f. 103, f. 105
36 - 12 January 1801 ff. 86-87
37 - 2 May 1801 ff. 10-11
38 - 4 May 1801  ff. 35-36
39 No. 6 9 May 1801 ff. 37-38
40 No. 6 11 May 1801 f. 70
41 No. 6 3 June 1801 f. 12
42 - 6 June 1801 ff. 4-5
43 - 4 July 1801 ff. 40-41
44 - 31 August 1801 ff. 15-16
45 - 17 September 1801 ff. 6-7
46 - 2 December 1801 ff. 8-9
47 - 14 January 1802 ff. 63-64
48 No. 6 29 November 1802 ff. 50-51
49 - 28 October 1803 ff. 99-100
50 -  1 May 1804 ff. 94-94a
51 - 5 Jul 1805 ff. 92-93
52 - 30 October 1805 ff. 90-91
53 - 18 November 1806 ff. 101-102
54 - 5 December 1807 ff. 97-98
55 - 28 December 1807 ff. 88-89
56 - 22 January 1808 ff. 95-96
57 - 11 November 1812 ff. 82-83
58 - 5 March 1813 ff. 84-85

Additional images:
 
description folio
marriage certificate inside front cover
'Anecdote... copied from dear M.D.’s album’, 7 July 1828 f. 104r

* no ms: as there was no ms letter for this date the edited version is copied here from The Aged Pilgrim’s Triumph over Sin and the Grave (London: 1824).

Acknowledgements:
The original owner of the mss, a direct descendant of Sophia Ring's
British Library
Lambeth Palace LIbrary MS 2942
Lambeth Palace Library MS 2943