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[Doc. 59.
SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE.
papers is to be used, he may be informed beforehand, so that
nothing shall appear, but what is well matured . I will send
you his letter, together with a copy of the Dedalus, which
will be sent the day after to -morrow to Magister Norberg in
Stockholm , who will travel next week to Brunsbo. Of those
remaining some will be sent to the bookseller in Stock
holm, which will be handed to the bookbinder here ; the rest
will remain here subject to your orders. There have also
been received 100 copies of the engraving of the “ Blankstöts "
machine. In future the price must be put on the title
page, for the agent in Upsal charges so extravagantly for it
that it has no sale. With regard to the observatory it has
proceeded so far that the provincial governor (Landshöfding]
promised to recommend to His Majesty, that the best round
tower upon the castle shall be repaired for it. There are
bricks enough here among the ruins for the purpose ; and rafters
and other wood-work may be obtained from the municipality. The
means of paying for the repairs I have discovered in the ground
here, viz. the long cast-iron pipes which were used for con
veying water from the mill to the castle, and which are now lying
here and are spoiling; there are too some brass pipes here of
considerable value, which can also be used. The former have
been sold to the iron works at Wattholm, and the latter to the
gun foundry in Stockholm. The instruments, as many as we
have, may be obtained at first from the Library. The
rest, as well as the annual appropriation, I thought might
be supplied by a monopoly on almanacks, by one only
being authorized to write them , as is the case now , and
as Prof. Krok is dead, and Prof. John Valerius receives
now the full salary of a professor, he can no longer pretend
that he writes them to supply his wants. If an almanack be
sold for twelve stivers in copper, it will include a mark for
duty, and if 7000 or 8000 copies be sold, it will yield a
considerable sum. With regard to the salary of a professor
of mechanics, I know nothing better than that Mr. Polhammar
be made an ordinary assessor of the College of Commerce;
that you be made director in his place ; that the mecha
nical laboratory be removed here to Upsal, and that the
director’s rank be made the same as that of the professors.
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