Newspaper clipping of a letter from John Forney to George Roberts, requesting his assistance in getting evidence that actor George Jamieson had an affair with actor Edwin Forrest's wife. Transcription: THE CHEVALIER FORNEY TO GEO. ROBERTS. {PRIVATE} Our friend [Edwin] Forrest is now here, and is about to apply for a divorce from his wife [Catherine Sinclair Forrest]. He has had, for eighteen months, the proofs of her infidelity, but has chosen to keep them quiet, and would have done so still but for her folly in censuring him for leaving her. It is really astounding how he has kept these proo
Newspaper clipping of a letter from John Forney to George Roberts, requesting his assistance in getting evidence that actor George Jamieson had an affair with actor Edwin Forrest's wife. Transcription: THE CHEVALIER FORNEY TO GEO. ROBERTS. {PRIVATE} Our friend [Edwin] Forrest is now here, and is about to apply for a divorce from his wife [Catherine Sinclair Forrest]. He has had, for eighteen months, the proofs of her infidelity, but has chosen to keep them quiet, and would have done so still but for her folly in censuring him for leaving her. It is really astounding how he has kept these proofs to himself from all his friends, for all that time; but it is so, nevertheless. The facts are these: ?Eighteen months ago, while playing in Cincinnati, he caught Mrs. F. in a very equivocal position with a young man, in his own parlor ?not in actual connection, but near it. She protested innocence, and he let it pass by ?loving her as he did, most profoundly. They passed on to New Orleans, and so home to New York. After they reached, and had been there for some time, he found, one evening, on his wife ?s table, a billet doux in the handwriting of, though not signed by, this young man, in which she was alluded to in terms the most amorous and unmistakable. The language alluded to her ?ǣwhite arms, that wound about his neck to the ?ǣblissful hours they had spent together; ? and the letter had been kept as a memento until it was well worn. Upon this evidence, with the other confirmatory proofs, he intends applying to our Legislature for a divorce; but you are now in a position to serve him in a manner he will never forget. The person who wrote to Mrs. F., and in whose company she was detected, is George Jamieson, now playing in New Orleans. If you don ?t know him, you can, as the editor of a leading daily paper, soon make his acquaintance. What Forrest now desires to clinch the nail is, to obtain in some way an admission from Jamieson. I named you to him as a safe, steady,
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