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Doc. 67.] SWEDENBORG TO ERICUS BENZELIUS. 273
which I found useful in mechanics on more occasions than I
expected I would, while teaching them at Upsal, and ignorant
of their use. In short, as long as I live, I hope there will
never be a lack of matter for printing, provided you are
willing to undergo the trouble of computing, drawing, writing,
and preparing everything belonging to it ; for all this
fatigues me too much, and I am too much occupied with other
business and other things of daily occurrence.
The rest of the letter is occupied with a project for
introducing thrashing machines into the kingdom , the proceeds
from which were to aid in the establishment of a laboratorium
mechanicum at Upsal, and elsewhere.]
With many kind remembrances from all of us, I remain
Your most dutiful servant,
CHRISTOPH POLHEIMER.
Stiernsund, September, 1716.
[P. S.] Will you please present my respects to the honour
able Librarian, to Professor Elfvius54 and several others.
Excuse my haste.
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DOCUMENT 67.
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS.
Most honoured friend and brother,
I wrote you a letter from Lund, and should
have written to you more frequently, had I not been prevented
by my mechanical and other occupations ; moreover, I had enough
to attend to in order to accomplish my design. Since His
Majesty graciously looked at my Dædalus and its plan, he has
* Benzelius Collection, Vol. XL, No. 114. The Swedish original of
this letter is No. II of the Swedenborg letters printed by Prof. Atterbom
in the Appendix to his “ Siare och Skalder," p. 102. Mr. Strutt’s English
translation appeared in Mr. White’s “ New Churchman ,” May, 1856, p. 52,
letter 4.
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