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Doc. 5.) 31
ROBSAHM’S MEMOIRS.
7
borg”, which appeared in the “New Jerusalem Magazine” of
1790 ; the second is Pernety’s account of Swedenborg, which
appeared as an introduction to his French translation of
“ Heaven and Hell", and which was included by Dr. Tafel
in his collection. Neither of these accounts is fully embodied
in the “Anecdotes collected by Mr. Robsahm", but the editor
alternately takes some paragraphs from the “New Jerusalem
Magazine", and from “ Pernety’s account”, leaving out arbi
trarily large portions of both . It is true Mr. Robsahm’s col
lection was drawn upon by the writers of both these accounts,
yet a considerable number of statements are made in the com
position called “Anecdotes collected by Mr. Robsahm", which
Robsahm never made, and which the English editor wrongly
ascribes to him, withholding at the same time the real " Rob
sahm’s Memoirs" from his readers. For a further account of
the history of Robsahm’s “Memoirs", see Notes 19 and 20.
The English translation of these memoirs given below is pre
pared immediately from the Swedish original; the numbers of
the paragraphs have been inserted by the editor, for the sake
of convenient reference.
1. The late Assessor Emanuel Swedenborg, who by his
works became so celebrated throughout Europe, died in London,
on March 29, 1772, in his eighty -fifth year. A well merited eu
logium was pronounced upon him in the Swedish Royal Academy
of Sciences, on October 7, 1772. But posterity may perhaps
be interested in knowing that which characterized this noble
man at home, and in his intercourse with his friends; and as,
since the death of his two old servants, a gardener and his wife,
there are only a few of those still living, who were on terms of
intimacy with him, who were acquainted with his habits of life,
and who could relate their conversations with him on the subject
of his visions and revelations, I was called upon by a worthy
man20 to state what I had seen and heard in Swedenborg’s
company; especially, as I had the advantage of being frequently
at his house, in the character of a friend, and of meeting him in
company, at my own house, and at the houses of my relations.
2. Swedenborg’s property was about a stone’s cast in length
and in breadth. The rooms of his dwelling-house were small
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