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HIS LETTER TO THE SWEDISH SECRETARY OF STATE. 231
probably excite the reader to their first perusal. Besides
this, I have published a new method of finding out the
longitude, which I discovered in my youth. Of this I
send your Excellency ten copies, to communicate to those
who have a knowledge of astronomy. If your Excellency
pleases, should a suitable opportunity present itself, I
shall esteem it a favour, if you will send two copies to
the Royal Society at Berlin. I shall set out this week
for London, where I purpose staying about ten weeks ;
and shall be informed by Baron Nolken, if the book is
arrived. I remain, &c.,
"EMANUEL SWEDENBORG."
To the [Swedish] Secretary of State.
"I have at last finished the explication of St. John’s
Revelations ; circulated them round to all the the univer
sities in Holland, Germany, France, and England ; and
am going to send seventy copies to Stockholm, of
which your honour will please to take ten, and give five
to the following senators : Senator Hôpken, Senator
Scheffer, and Nordencrantz, Councellor of Commerce,
Bishop Menander, and Bishop Serenius ; the other five
you will be pleased to dispose of amongst your friends.
I desire the remaining sixty to be kept safe until I return
home, meaning to distribute them amongst the academies
and libraries in Sweden, and to clergymen qualified for a
more than ordinary station. I design to present four to
the court, and the remainder to the universities and
seminaries in foreign parts. Sir, it will give me great
pleasure to hear of yours, and your dear father’s welfare.
-I remain, &c.,
"EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.
" P.S. I shall depart this week for London."*
There are no dates to these two letters ; but as they were
evidently written immediately after the publication of The Apoca
lypse Revealed, it is most probable that the date would be 1766,
the year in which that work appeared.
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