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Doc. 5.] 49
ROBSAHM’S MEMOIRS.
SUPPLEMENT TO ROBSAHM’S MEMOIRS.
53. Statement explanatory of $ 46, from the Minutes of
the Exegetic-Philanthropic Society in Stockholm :
“ Truthful Account made by the late Queen Dowagerli
in Haga, t in the year 1774."
Swedenborg was one day at a court reception. Her
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Majesty asked him about different things in the other
life, and lastly whether he had seen, or had talked with,
her brother, the Prince Royal of Prussia. He answered,
No. Her Majesty then requested him to ask after him, and
to give him her greeting, which Swedenborg promised to do.
I doubt whether the queen meant anything serious by it. At
the next reception Swedenborg again appeared at court; and
while the queen was in the so-called white room, surrounded
by her ladies of honour, he came boldly in, and approached
her Majesty, who no longer remembered the commission
she had given him a week before. Swedenborg not only
greeted her from her brother, but also gave her his apologies
for not having answered her last letter; he also wished to do
so now through Swedenborg; which he accordingly did. The
Queen was greatly overcome, and said, “No one, except God,
knows this secret.’ The reason why she never adverted to
this before, was, that she did not wish any one in Sweden to
believe that during a war with Prussia she had carried on a
correspondence in the enemy’s country. The same caution
Her Majesty exercised during her last visit to Berlin. When
she was asked about this transaction, which had been printed
in a German paper, she did not answer. This circum
stance was narrated in the French translation of Heaven
and Heu .
* Extracts from these Minutes are preserved in the Library of the New
Church Society in Stockholm , the leader of which is Mr. Oscar Tyboni;
copies of SS 53 and 54 were made by the editor of these Documents during
his stay in Stockholm, in 1868.
+ Haga is royal castle in the neighbourhood of Stockholm ; it was the
favourite resort of Gustavus III.
† Pernety’s translation of Heaven and Hell, published in two vols. in
Berlin, in 1782.
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