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TESTIMONY OF C. SPRINGER, ESQ.,
SWEDISH CONSUL AT THE PORT OF LONDON,
RESPECTING SWEDENBORG.
This gentleman was many years the intimate friend of
Swedenborg, both in Sweden and in England. He was
known to many of the early readers of Swedenborg’s
works in this country, and has left the strongest tes
timony to the worth and extraordinary character of his
friend.
The following is a letter, which Mr. Springer addressed
to the Abbé Pernetti, librarian to the king of Prussia,
who had written to Mr. S., wishing to receive information
concerning Swedenborg’s works, and to ascertain what he
knew respecting him :—
" SIR,
"By the letter with which you have honoured me,
dated Berlin the 6th of December last, which came late
to hand, I perceive that you desire to have some of the
works published by the late assessor, Emanuel Sweden
borg ; as also a relation of the particulars that passed at
my meeting with him during his life-time ; and that my
friends, Messrs. de Nordenskjold, have directed you to
me for such information : in regard to which, I shall
satisfy your desires on those heads, so far as my strength
and sight will permit me, which have failed me con
siderably within the last two years, and which, on my
approaching near to my seventy-ninth year, is indeed less
to be wondered at.
"It is to be observed, that Assessor Swedenborg was
not a count, but a simple gentleman up to the year
1719. His father, Jasper Swedberg, was bishop of
Skara, and a man of great learning ; but this Emanuel
Swedenborg was gifted of GOD with greater endowments,
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