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m DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENFORG,
been to him and told him her trouble, and he had promised that if he met fier
husband in the spiritual world, be would inquire of Mm about the matter.
* This soon happened,’ continued Swedenborg, ’
and M. Martevilfe told me
that he would himself go to his house on the fallowing night to see after the re-
ceipt.’
" I received no* other answer for the lady and I have taiken no &ther part in the
matter, but I have heard that the widow spoke to her husband in a dream, and
he told her where to find the missing document in his private bureau."
’
"We add an interesting statement concerning the anecdote respecting the widow of
Mr. Von Marteville, contained in a ietter from the Danish General who was the second
husband of that lady. It is published by Dr. Tafel in a note to the above memoir.
—
B.
" Abouc a year after the death of M. Ton Marteville, my wife felt a desire to
see the noiorious* and famous Baron Swedenborg, who at that time was her
neighbor in Stcckholm. Several ladies of her acquaintance partook of her curi-
osity to have a nearer view of so strange a person,
** Accordingly the ladies went to his house and were admitted together. Swe-
denborg received them in a .very beautiful garden, where they found him in an
elegant summer-house, having an arched roof.
•’
Among other questions my wife asked Swedenborg whether he knew M.
Von Marteville. He answered, No ; for while that gentleman was at the Swedish
court, he was himself detained in London.
" In passing, 1 may here mention that the story of the twenty-five thousand
Dutch guilders is perfectly correct thus far, that a claim was instituted against
my wife for that amount, and she could produce no discharge of^the debt.
Meantime the circumstance was not mentioned in society. [M. Von Marteville
had received the sum and paid it out again, but after his death no receipt could
be found.] Eight days afterwards M. Von Marteville appeared to my wife in a
dream, and mentioned to her a private place in his English cabinet, where she
would find not only the receipt but also a hair-pin set with twenty brilliants, whicli
had been given up as lost. This happened about two o’clock in the morning.
Full of joy, my wife arose and found them in the place designated. She return-
ed again to rest, and slept till nine o’clock. About eleven, the Baron Sweden-
borg was announced. His first remark, before my wife had time to speak, was,
that he had, during the preceding night, seen several spirits, and among others
M. Von Marteville. He had wished to converse with him, but M. Von Marte-
ville excused himself on the ground that he must go to discover to his wife
something of importance ; that he then departed out of the society in which he
had been a year, and would ascend to one far happier.
•’ This is the true statement of the affair in which my wife was concerned, as
well with respect to the receipt as with the Baron Swedenborg.
" I attempt not to penetrate into the mystery—I am not called on to do it. I
am merely required to make a plain statement of facts. This duty I have per-
formed, and it will give me pleasure to be assured that your reverence has de-
rived from it the desired satisfaction.
* In the original this word has a very contemptuous meaning and proves that the
writer was not an adherent of Swedenborg, as no one friendly to him would have used
it.
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