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Doc. 50.] SWEDENBORG TO ERICUS BENZELIUS. 241
foresee anything, I will try to make it seem as if I saw the
same thing too ; although I can flatter myself with only a
small prospect of recompense from it; but obedience to your
counsels will prevail over all my interest in more advantageous
prospects.
But
, my dear brother, a single word from you to my father
about me, will be worth more than twenty thousand re
monstrances from me. You can without any comment inform
him of my enterprise, of my zeal in my studies ; and that he
need not imagine that in future I shall waste my time and,
at the same time, his money. One word from another is worth
more than a thousand from me. He knows very well that you
have the kindness to interest yourself in my behalf; but he
knows too, that I am still more interested in my own behalf. For
this reason he will distrust me more than you, my dear brother.
I will take care of the shoes for brother Eric, and we
will also take care of the dress. But the dyers of [Stock
holm] have their hands full; the shops here are all changed
into black chambers, to make the goods appear still more
dreary, and everything that has been red or gay has assumed
now the colour of mourning.* This is the reason why my
sister’s dress cannot be dyed black.
I should like very much to form one of the company at
Starbo,68 but the affairs of the journal keep me confined
here. It is necessary to push matters to a termination first; but
a week or a fortnight after your departure I shall probably
share the road with you on my way to Brunsbo.
The news that are reported here, arrived from Stralsund
this morning, viz :
1. That the Royal government office with all its employés
has embarked for Sweden. There was probably a place left
in the vessel for the King.
2. That Stralsund has been reduced to ashes, and has
become its own grave, and that of many officers.
3. That Mr. Adelström has been advanced to be keeper
of the Library; no other advancements.
* All Stockholm seems to have gone into mourning on account of the
death of the Queen Dowager, Hedvig Eleonora,64 which occurred on the
24th of November.
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