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DOCUMENT 46.
SWEDENBORG TO ERICUS BENZELIUS.
Most honoured Friend and Brother,
It is some time since I had the pleasure of
writing to you. I hope this has not caused any feeling of
uneasiness. I admit that it was caused partly by pro
crastination, but in part it was also owing to my not having
any opportunities for writing. This reason has also prevented
me from giving my dear parents any intelligence concerning
myself. But as I am now so much nearer home, I will
make amends for all this by increased industry, if I can please
you by doing so. Your last letter I received in Paris as I
was on the point of leaving that city: nevertheless I attended
* Benzelius’ Collection, Vol. XL , No. 110. This is the first of the
letters copied by Dr. Håhl, the librarian of the Cathedral-library at Lin
köping, for the Swedenborg Association. His transcript of these letters is of
considerable value, as it contains Dr. Håhl’s reading of doubtful passages.
The order in which these letters follow in Dr. Håhl’s copies is the same as that
in which these letters were originally bound together in Vol. XL of the Ben
zelius Collection. This order was also preserved by Mr. White in
publishing twenty-six of these letters in English ; yet this order is by no
means chronological, and only serves to confound the biographer of Sweden
borg. Upon closer investigation it has been found that all the letters in the
collection without any date had been bound up indiscriminately between
letters one and two. After the true dates of these letters had been ap
proximately determined by a critical examination of their contents, the
true order ofthese letters, as numbered by Dr. Håhl and Mr. White, appears
to be as follows: 1, 5 (omitted both by Dr. Håhl and Mr. White ), 9, 38,
13, 8, 32, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,
24, 25, 26, & c . Compare the English translation of this letter in Mr. White’s
“New Churchman ,” March, 1856, p. 29, New Documents concerning Sweden
borg ,” Letter 1.
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