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224 [ Doc. 44.
SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE .
book in which there is a drawing of it, and also a list of the
things that belong to it. If I hear that you desire to have
one, I shall write to Hauksbee from some other place, that
he undertake to send it to you, which he has promised
to do. There is a large quantity of books worth buying : *
Harris’s Lexicon of the Sciences and Arts, in which there is also
contained much mathematics. Philosophical Transactions and
collections from the year 1705, by John Lowth, which will
cost fifty shillings; it was recommended to me by Dr. Wood
ward, because it contains what has been transacted in the Royal
Society, and because the information which is scattered through
the Philosophical Transactions is here reduced into order. I
read it through ; it is a great pity it is not translated into
Latin .’ The Memoirs of Literature; which treats on the history
of literature, in folio; besides several other books, which
I think cannot have escaped your knowledge. Within three
or four months I hope, with God’s help, to be in France ;
for I greatly desire to understand its fashionable and use
ful language. I hope by that time to have, or to find there,
letters from you to some of your learned correspondents,
especially Abbé Bignon,67 whose acquaintance I much desire
to make, and which I shall have no difficulty in making by
means of a letter from you.
Your great kindness, and your favour, of which I have had
so many proofs, make me believe, that your advice and your
letters will induce my father to be so favourable towards me,
as to send me the funds which are necessary for a young man,
and which will infuse into me new spirit for the prosecution
of my studies. Believe me, I desire and strive to be an honour
to my father’s house and yours, much more strongly than you
yourself can wish and endeavour.
P. S. I would have bought the microscope, if the price
had not been so much higher than I could venture to pay,
before receiving your orders. This microscope was one which
Mr. Marshall showed to me especially; it is quite new , and of
his own invention, and shows the motion in fishes very vividly.
* As will be seen from the original of this letter as published in Vol. III
the greater part of what follows was written by Swedenborg in broken
English, which we have endeavoured to render into good English.
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