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190 [Doc. 31.
SWEDENBORG’S ANCESTRY.
with my writings. And Möller has charged me as much for
printing as he has any one else ; and since he has the King
in his favour, he makes heavy charges. It would be well,
if I succeed one day in obtaining leave to import fifty reams
of paper for the Bible free of duty. Since the year 1701 I
have petitioned for this holy and wholesome work. But so
it goes when the authorities. Is that not a queer measure,
that the Hymn- Book from Skepsholm is no longer per
mitted to be sent to New Sweden; when yet they have
never had any other there ? Think, that it will cost over
10,000 dalers in silver to send them a requisite supply ;
think too of the confusion in the singing, from having previously
used my Hymn-Book ! It is very remarkable also, that, after
Charles XII wrote home from Poland that the necessary
supply should be sent thither, I went up to the Council, when
His Excellency Count Horn went out, and after I had brought
forward my objections, it was resolved, against the will of a
sovereign Prince, to send mine there instead ; which was
done. And the Hymn-Book belongs to me ; my 30,000 dalers
are invested in it. I have to thank my colleagues, that it is
now prohibited to be sent thither. They ought to buy copies of
their own Hymn-Book at their own expense, and send them
there, and order the others to be cast into the fire. Many have
written to me about my "Godly Exercise in the Catechism .” It is
out of print, and I have thought of printing a second edition.
So also inquiry has been made after the two remaining parts
of my “ Sabbath’s Rest.” The women will make use of these after
my death. Olof Rudbeck,49 D. Gezelius, and several others,
received assistance from the public for the printing of their
works; I have not received a farthing. And yet a hundred
cart-loads of unsold books lie at my own house, without
counting those in other places. It is possible that I may
never obtain my rights in these things. If God prolong
my life until the next Diet, I will give them a bit of my
mind. Where are the books written by my colleagues ? Shame
on us, that we are compelled to buy and read the books
written by the learned abroad! Neither have I received any
answer to my application for another clergyman for America,
in the place of Magister Hesselius. A certain Lidenius,
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