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Doc. 6.] 53
PERNETY’S ACCOUNT.
and more experienced brother, worked them up into a con
nected whole, while Pernety put the finishing touches to it
and added § 26. The brothers Nordensköld, in drawing up
their account of Swedenborg, had access to the following
sources :
1. Robsahm’s Memoirs, which, as we have proved in Note
20, were written at the request of C. F. Nordensköld. Upon
these memoirs the Nordenskölds drew in the preparation of
the following paragraphs: 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 19, 20, 21, 29,
31, 32, 34, 35, 36. In these paragraphs Robsahm’s language
is not, however, translated verbally, and sometimes con
siderable liberty has been taken with his text either by Mr.
A. Nordensköld, or else by M. Pernety himself. It is quite
possible also that the whole of Robsahm’s account was not
ready in time for the Nordenskölds to make full use of it,
inasmuch as it was not finished until March 29, 1782.
2. Information collected from the wife of Swedenborg’s gar
dener, by C. F. Nordensköld : SS 12 (?), 22, 24, 30, and a por
tion of 34. In a letter to Dr. Im. Tafel in Tübingen, dated
May 1, 1822, C. F. Nordensköld makes the following ad
ditional statement : “ During my stay in Stockholm I visited
one day the wife of Swedenborg’s gardener, who, together with
her husband, waited upon him . She had free board in a
charitable institution. She told me that Swedenborg often lay
for several days in his bed without eating. He gave orders
that they were not to awake him , or to touch him in such a
state, but to place a basin of water before his bed. When he
awoke, he did not feel the least weakness, but was strong and
hale, as if he had partaken of hearty meals during the whole
of that time.” See Tafel’s “ Documents ", &c. Vol. IV. p. 205.
. .
The same statement C. F. Nordensköld made in his “ Con
sidérations Générales”, &c. p. 174.
3. From Dr. Beyer: part of $ 32.
4. From Count Höpken : S$ 25, 27, 28.
5. From Sandels, the Councillor of Mines, $ 15.
6. From Swedenborg’s Writings: SS 8, 23.
7. Facts generally known in Sweden : S$ 13, 18.
8. Authorities unknown: 88 7, 37.
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