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HIS LETTERS TO THE LANDGRAVE OF HESSE-DARIMSTADT. 167
a new method of finding out tlie 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 oppor-
tunity present itself, I shall esteem it a favor, if you will send two copies to the
Royal Society at Berlin. I shall set out this week for London, w^iere 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 universities in Holland, Germany, France, and England
;
and am going to send seventy copies to Stockholm, of which your honor will
please to take ten, and give five to the following senators : Senator Hopken,
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,
meanmg to distribute them amongst the academies and libraries in Sweden, and
to clergymen qualified for a more than ordinaiy 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 w^eek for London."*
XXIX.
SWEDENBORG’S LETTERS
TO THE
LANDGRAVE F ^HESS E - D ARM ST A DT
AND TO
HIS MINISTER, M. VENATOR.f
LETTER I.
To the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.
" On the reception of your obliging letter, I was uncertain whether it was
signed by you, most Serene Duke, or by some other person. I communicated
the subject of my uncertainty to M. Venator, your minister, on his calling on me,
* There are no dates to these two letters ; but as they were evidently written imme-
diately after the publication of The Apocalypse Revealed, it is most probably that the
date would be 1766, the year in which that work appeared.
t See Dr. Tafel’s " Samlung von Urkwiden, ^-c," or Collection of Documents con-
cerning the Life of Swedenborg, p. 339, and following.
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