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DOCUMENT 30.
TWENTIETH LETTER * OF BISHOP SWEDBERG
TO JOHAN ROSENADLER .
your letter.
Well-born Councillor of Chancery,
Most honoured Brother,
I had the honour, a short time ago, of receiving
With respect to Festus Magnus, this was
originally a short sermon, which I did not think worth
while to send through purgatory, especially as it treated
of subjects to which no objection could be taken. After
wards it grew to its present size. I ask to be excused. It
shall not happen again. I thought you had seen a specimen of
my Pharos Sacra. I hope I may obtain leave to print it without
sending it over ; it comprizes six quartos. For the whole
of my “Sabbath’s Rest”, I had in 1708 the consent of the
late Högwal, as has been stated at the beginning of the book ;
so that the two remaining parts need not be sent to the
Consistory in Gottenburg, and so forth; moreover they will
have to lie unprinted, on account of the difficulty of importing
paper free of duty. Not fifty cart-loads would remove all the
printed sheets I have in stock, and which were printed at my
own expense; and I can testify upon my honour that I have
not had at the utmost more than four hundred reams of paper
free of duty. Let it be so. Let another write, print, and pay
as much as I have : men have learned better. I am only
sorry that paper free of duty is not granted for the printing
of the Bible. Please remember me kindly to Mr. Barck, the
Secretary of State; he is a countryman of mine, and a good
friend and brother; a most learned man ; inclined to promote the
* Bergius’ Collection, Vol. IV, p. 45.
+ The nature of this Pharos Sacra, which means “ Sacred Beacon -light,"
will be found explained in Document 33.
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