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DOCUMENT 33.
TWENTY - THIRD LETTER * OF BISHOP SWED
BERG TO JOHAN ROSENADLER .
8
Well-born Councillor of Chancery,
Most honoured Brother,
I thank you very much for sending me this
reminder about my America. I will comply in all respects with
your instructions; and shall submit it to the examination of the
Theological Faculty, either at Skara or Gottenburg. I have here
a copy exactly like that which you have now in hand.
The Queen had also ordered me to write on the Epistles,
which I accordingly did ; and after Her Majesty had kept
the book for more than a year, she delivered it to Assessor
Benzelstierna, with a handsome donation for the printing of
both works. Will you please to call for the copy, and submit
it to the ecclesiastical Consistory for approval ?
I have a book in six quartos,t in which I have quoted with
each verse the authors who explain it. I have also made a
Swedish version of the Bible from the original text. After
my death it will be deposited in the Library at Upsal. Like
wise my Autobiography in large quarto. I intend now, if God
grant me the time, to write on the passion of Christ. If I
were a German, I would receive money for it. Here I have
always to advance the money. If I had all the money which
I have invested in the printing of books, I would be worth
now from sixty to seventy thousand dalers in copper.
Commending you to God, I remain with great respect,
Your most obedient servant,
J. SWEDBERG.
Brunsbo, April 6, 1728.
[P. S.] Consul Ahlström ,94 who is at present in Stockholm,
and will return here at once, can bring the copy of the MSS.
* Bergius’ Collection, Vol. IV , p. 50.
+ The Pharos Sacra mentioned in Document 30 .
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