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DOCUMENT 62.
SWEDENBORG TO ERICUS BENZELIUS. *
Most honoured friend and brother,
My last letter I sent to you enclosed in my
father’s, as I thought I would be travelling about this time to
Carlscrona ; but as the Assessor has postponed his journey,
and as I now feel but little inclination for it, it will not take
place on my account. In the mean time I am engaged upon
the subject which I intend for the last number of this year,
and which I shall finish this week ; viz. Pålhammar’s14
ideas upon the resistance of mediums, which at first were
written down in Latin, and which has cost me a great deal of
labour and mental exertion to reduce into such a form as will
please the Assessor and the learned ; likewise, my method of
finding the longitude of places, which I warrant to be
,
certain and sure - I must hear what the learned say about it.
I bought in Stockholm a project of a Venetian, Doroth. Olimari,
for finding the longitude, which is speculation and nothing
more ; the difficulty of reducing it to practice is immense.
By the next post I will send it over, together with some other
matter which is to go into this last number.
At the end of this week we expect brother Lars and sister
Hedvigs up here ; brother Eliezer’s widow, we think, set out
upon her journey to -day.
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* Benzelius’ Collection, Vol. XL, No. 122. Mr. Strutt’s English trans
lation, see in Mr. White’s “New Churchman ," July 1836, p. 76, letter 12.
+ Elisabeth Brink, born in 1684, daughter of Sven Brinck, commissioner
of the Bank, and father of Col. Gabriel Brinck, when ennobled Leijonbrinck.
She was first married to Georg Brandt, ownerofmining property (brukspatron ),
secondly to Eliezer Swedberg, a younger brother of Emanuel Swedenborg.
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