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DOCUMENT 36.
SWEDENBORG TO ERICUS BENZELIUS.6 *
Most learned Librarian,
Dear and honoured friend and brother,
The reason I have hitherto delayed writing so
important a letter, was chiefly that I was uncertain where you
might be at the present time. And although I am still in the
dark about your return home from the springs, I am compelled
to send you these lines because of some matters of importance
to me ; for relying on your usual kindness and on your friendly
promise, I would humbly ask you to give me something in
hand, that may assist me in taking my departure; and if you
could add to this some letters to your acquaintances in Eng
land, or anything else that might be of use to me, I much
wish you would do so. I do not intend to remain here longer
than a fortnight,-only long enough to receive your answer
respecting my journey. I should very much like, by your
recommendation, to become acquainted with someone in
the English College (in Collegio Anglicano ), where there are
about twenty -one assessores, that I might improve myself in
mathematics, or in physics and natural history, if these are their
strongest points.
As I have always desired to turn to some practical use,
and also to perfect myself more in, the studies which I selected
with your advice and approval, I thought it advisable to
choose a subject early, which I might elaborate in course
of time, and into which I might introduce much of what I
should notice and read in foreign countries. This course I
* Benzelius’ Collection, Vol. III, No. 65.
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