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ANECDOTES COLLECTED BY MR. PROVO. 91
weeks together with me in this house; during which
time I observed nothing in him but what was very
reasonable and bespoke the gentleman. He at that
time breakfasted on coffee, ate moderately at dinner, and
drank one or two glasses of wine after it, but never more.
In the afternoon he drank tea, but never ate any supper.
He usually walked out after breakfast, generally dressed
neatly in velvet, and made a good appearance. He was
mostly reserved, but complaisant, to others. He has told
me that very few were given to see the things that he did,
and that he often saw many extraordinary things. Mr.
Springer once asked him, when at dinner here, about the
state of a person who was the occasion of Mr. Springer’s
being obliged to leave Sweden, and who was deceased ; to
which he answered that it was very bad, and that he
hoped his would be better. A secretary of Baron Nolken,
who was present, put an impertinent question to him of a
similar kind, which he refused to answer, observing, that
he never answered such questions as originated in ill-will
or malice. He com
ommonly retired to his chamber in the
evening, and once I heard some noise from that part, and
went to speak to him about it ; and as he seemed rejoiced,
I asked him the occasion ; when he told me that he had
seen some extraordinary things which pleased him. He
told me the story about the queen of Sweden’s [ Ulrica’s]
brother she had secretly burnt a letter of his to her, sent
a short time before a battle in which he was killed, and
she wanted to know some other particulars relative to the
contents : Swedenborg, some days after her application to
him, returned, and told her that her brother was offended
Every authentic testimony, however, respecting the gifted indi
vidual to whom they relate, ought, I think, to be put on record in
some permanent Repository: I therefore transmit them for your
work. The paper sent was transcribed by me from a copy in the
handwriting of the late Mr. Servanté, lent by that gentleman to
me for the purpose. He informed me that his was transcribed
from a copy in the possession of Mr. J. A. Tulk ; who, Mr.
Servanté understood, had it from Mr. Provo himself. Mr. Peter
Provo was a respectable gentleman of the medical profession,
who published the work called ’ Wisdom’s Dictates.’- I am, &c.
" Dec. 15, 1835." " S. NOBLE.
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