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INTRODUCTION
The correspondence contained in this section is preserved
chiefly in the Benzelius Collection of MSS. in the Cathedral
library of Linköping. The seven letters written by Sweden
borg to Ericus Benzelius before 1714, are contained in Vols. III
and IV of the Collection; those, however, which he wrote
between 1714 and 1724 are contained in Vol. XL, which bears
the title : Collectanea Physico -Mathematica, &c. Eleven of
the forty -two letters contained in this volume were published
by Prof. Atterbom in the Appendix to his “Siare och Skalder ;"
and forty -one of these letters were copied by Dr. Håhl,
Librarian of the Linköping Library, at the expense of the
Swedenborg Association, and sent by him to London about
1850.* Twenty -six of these letters, which had been translated
into English by Mr. Charles Edward Strutt, were afterwards
published by Mr. White in the “New Churchman ” for 1856.
The letters which Polhem addressed to Swedenborg and Ericus
Benzelius are, with the exception of Document 38, contained in a
separatequarto volume, in whichBenzelius collected allthepapers
prepared by Polhem. This volume is also in the Benzelius
Collection at Linköping. None of these letters had been
previously published. Most of the remaining letters of this
Section are from the Bergius Collection of Letters, which is
preserved in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in
Stockholm . Particulars concerning this collection may be found
in Note 46.
* For further information respecting the Swedish copy of these letters
received by the Swedenborg Association, see Note to Document 46.
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