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Doc. 69.) 277
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS.
of the treatise on the longitude of places. I hope also that
something may then be done for the observatory and the
faculty, regarding which no action has yet been taken. А
single word would have been sufficient, if the Councillor of
Commerce * could have seen that it might have been ar
ranged and carried out, without the intended onet coming
into the faculty, or at least being present at Upsal. An appli
cation shall, nevertheless, soon be made on behalf of the obser
vatory; more might be said about this, however, if it could be
done orally. The Councillor of Commerce sends his respects to
you. I remain always, honoured friend and brother,
Your most faithful brother until death,
EMAN . SWEDBERG .
Gottenburg, 23 January, 1717.
DOCUMENT 69.
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS. #
Most honoured friend and brother,
Enclosed I send Dædalus, part v, and I most
humbly solicit you to extend to it the kindness that you have
shown towards the former numbers. I should have finished
it long ago, but I have been continually on a journey of ever
altering direction, which scarcely left me an hour’s time for
such work. But as I have now arrived at Stiernsund, I have
found an opportunity, for a few days, to get this up, as well
as I can . I hope it will win the approval of the Upsal
people, and especially your own.
I have added the Latin to it on the opposite page,
according to His Majesty’s wish, who pointed out to me where
the Swedish should be, and where the Latin. I could wish,
* Polhem .
* Swedenborg himself.
# Benzelius’ Collection, Vol. XL, No. 126. No. IV in Atterbom’s
Collection ; and letter 16 in Mr. White’s “New Churchman ," Vol. 2, p. 102.
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