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Doc. 67.] 275
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS.
meets with His Majesty’s entire approbation.* Nothing has
been mentioned yet about the institution of the Faculty ;t but
it shall not be forgotten in its proper time, although the
Upsal letter may have to lie over. Towards the month of
February we may be in the neighbourhood of Upsal, when
everything may be discussed and considered more minutely.
A thousand kind remembrances to sister Anna. The kid
gloves have been purchased. I remain, my dear friend and
brother,
Your most obedient servant, and faithful brother,
Em, Sw.
[Carlscrona, towards the end of December, 1716.]
P. S. Upon the whole the journey has been made at
very little beyond the travelling expenses. The making out
of the warrant which is usually expensive, did not cost me
a single stiver ; this I affirm solemnly.
[ Swedenborg here gives a copy of the letter sent to the
College of Mines. But we prefer to refer our readers to a
translation of the original letter which is still preserved in the
College of Mines, together with Swedenborg’s warrant for his
assessorship ; see our Documents 142 and 143, in Section V.]
Ericus Benzelius discovered a letter written by Bishop Brask to Ture
Jönsson in 1526, in which the Bishop first proposed the plan for joining the
Baltic and the North Sea by a canal. “Of this letter,” says Benzelius
( Linköping’s Bibl. Handlingar, Vol. I, p. 191), “I gave a copy to my
brother-in -law , Mr. Emanuel Swedberg, during his stay at Lund, in 1716,
in the suite of the King, and it was the occasion of directing attention
to the plan of building a canal between Lakes Wener and Wetter, and of
making the river from Gottenburg to Lake Wener navigable; all this, how
ever, was stopped by the King’s death ."
+ The Institution of a Mechanical Faculty at Upsal. See Document 59.
18 *
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