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Doc. 59.] SWEDENBORG TO ERICUS BENZELIUS. 255
prevented me then from testifying my gratitude to you in
some manner, as I ought to have done. In Skärviken I became
richer than I was before, and in time I hope that by means
of it I may be able to be of greater service to you. Just
think of my having had a slight attack of ague, of which I am
even now ailing!
Håkan, who has gone [to Stockholm ] to become a master,
understands engraving on wood: he supplies a desideratum .
I remain
Your most obedient servant,
EMAN . SWEDBERG .
(Brunsbo, about March 20, 1716.]
P.S. I am sorry for the death of Prof. Valerius ; 1 I con
gratulate the junior, and wish him success, and also his suc
cessor in the adjunctship, whoever he may be. In my next I
will send you a specification of the books sold; I have already
taken the necessary measures.
DOCUMENT 59.
ERICUS BENZELIUS TO SWEDENBORG . *
Upsal, April 2, 1716.
My very dear friend and brother,
Now at last your Dædalus, part ii, is ready,
and it seems as if it ought to be, as it does not contain
more than two sheets. Mr. Polhammar’s thoughts about
the motion of a ball in water, with its application to the
motion of the planets, I had to leave out, in accordance with
a wish he expressed in a letter. If you would let him have
a copy of it, he might have better grounds for changing or
adding as he pleases. He asks that, whenever one of his
Benzelius’ Collection, Vol. XL, No. 69.
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