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PREFACE. VII
Document 137), from which have been derived two letters in
Section I, four documents in Section IV, one in Section V,
and several in Section XI. In the Royal Library is pre
served also the interesting document entitled “Swedenborg’s
Dreams,” of which an account is given in Section VIII.
In November 1868, the editor left Sweden in order to lay
the results of his investigations respecting the Swedenborg MSS.
before the friends of the New Church at large ; and in June
1869 he returned to Sweden with instructions from the General
Convention of the New Church in America (which was soon after
joined by the General Conference in Great Britain) to commence
the photo-lithographic reproduction of the unpublished writings
of Swedenborg.
While engaged in the superintendence of this work he
continued to seek, by all available means, to increase his
stock of Documents; and permission having been granted by
the authorities of the College of Commerce, he entered upon
a systematic examination of the records of the College of Mines
during the time Swedenborg had been officially connected with
it, from 1717 to 1747. The results of this investigation ’are
contained, partly in Section V, and partly in Section VI. He
supplemented his researches in the College of Mines by
investigations in the Royal Archives, free access to which had
been granted him by the superintendent, Count Oxenstjerna.
Besides, the Court of Appeals opened to him its hidden treas
ures, and an interesting law -suit was there discovered, an
abstract of which is contained in Document 132, Section IV.
The funds which were required for collecting and tran
scribing this vast mass of documents, were supplied by the
American Document Committee, which is under the direction
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