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228 [Doc. 45.
SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE.
11 May
Three months ago I receiveda letter from Hinrick Benzelius,?
from Dimmertess, near Adrianople, dated the ii april, in which
he mentions that he had been for six months with the King. *
I do not know what he intends to do now, whether he will
proceed farther into the East, or return to Venice by way of
the Archipelago. Magister Eneman,t Professor at Upsal with a
salary of 200 rixdalers, had been with him , but he travelled
afterwards to Jerusalem . He had a letter from him dated
from Smyrna.
Whatever I am able to gather, from the conversation of
the learned, respecting the progress of literature and mathema
tics, I will always report to you whenever I have an opportu
nity.
You may rest assured that I entertain the greatest friendship
and veneration for you ; I hope, therefore, that you will not be
displeased with me on account of my silence, and my delay
in writing letters, if you hear that I am always intent on my
studies, so that sometimes I omit more important matters.
Farewell.
Yours most faithfully, even to death,
EMAN. SWEDBERG .
Paris, 9/19 August, 1713.
* Henricus Benzelius left Sweden in 1712 ; after passing through Ger
many and Hungary he spent some time at Bender in Turkey with
Charles XII; afterwards he visited Greece, Palestine, and Egypt, and re
turned home towards the close of 1718.
+ Magister Eneman made an equally extensive journey, and in addition
visited Arabia, being the first Swede who had entered that country.
While in Egypt, in 1714, he received the appointment of professor of the
oriental languages at Upsal; whereupon be immediately returned home,
but died a few weeks after his return .
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