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VI PREFACE.
issued a circular which was inserted in most of the Swedish
journals, soliciting all who were in possession of letters addressed
to, or written by, Swedenborg, or other documents respecting
him, to send them to the Royal Library in Stockholm, where
certified copies would be taken . At the same time direct
appeals were made by the Royal Librarian and Mr. J. A. Ahl
strand, librarian of the Royal Academy of Sciences, to all
antiquarians and collectors in furtherance of this object.
The result was the accumulation, in a short time, of a vast
mass of information respecting Swedenborg, the very existence
of which had not previously been suspected.
The most fruitful sources of documentary information were :
First, the Cathedral-Library at Linköping; whither the editor,
by the advice of his faithful coadjutors, undertook a journey
about the end of October, 1868, and where the Consistory,
under the presidency of Bishop Bring, with the greatest readiness
resolved to send to the Royal Library in Stockholm all the
volumes which contained letters or other documents respecting
Swedenborg ; at the same time instructing the Royal Librarian
to place these volumes freely at the service of the editor.
From these volumes are derived seventy -one of the documents
in Section III, and two of those in Section IV. Secondly,
the Library of the Academy of Sciences, which supplied twenty
five of the letters in Section II, seventeen of those in Section III,
four documents of Section IV, twenty-five of Section VI, and
three of great importance in Section VII; it provided, be
sides, the journals of Swedenborg’s travels, which are printed
in Section VIII, with some letters contained in Section IX.
Thirdly, the Royal Library in Stockholm ; the present custodian
of the treasures of Count Engeström’s library (see foot-note to
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