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PREFACE.
In the year 1868, the editor, while professor at the
Washington University of St. Louis, Missouri, was requested
by the General Convention of the New Church in America
to undertake a journey to Sweden, for the purpose of securing
a photo -lithographic reproduction of all the unpublished manu
scripts of Swedenborg. He accordingly embarked for Europe
at the end of July of the same year, and towards the end of
September arrived in Stockholm , where he at once entered
upon the work of his important mission.
After accomplishing the preliminary part of his task, that
of making a most minute and careful examination of the
Swedenborg MSS., which are preserved in the Library of the
Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, he, while engaged one day
in the Royal Library in turning over some of its literary treasures,
laid his hand upon some documents respecting Swedenborg
which had never been published in the English language. It
was then that the idea occurred to him of not only making
an exhaustive examination of the author’s unpublished writings,
but also of collecting such documents respecting him as might
still be in existence, scattered over the various parts of his
native country
The Royal Librarian in Stockholm , Mr. C. E. Klemming,
kindly entered into the editor’s plans, and, at his request, at once
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