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300 SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE. [Doc. 80.
I wish to put down a few memoranda, on which I should
like to get your opinion and your answer when I come to
Upsal: 1. I think of dedicating the little treatise which Dr.
Rudbeck49 takes with him , to Abbé Bignon,57 abroad, and
the other about the longitude to Edward Halley,65 Oxford,
who has also done something in this subject; 2. That this be
done in pure Swedish, and that I make a translation of both,
and thus send them over ; I hope that by so doing I may
gain the favour of some one; 3. Whether in the place of the
professorship of the late Elfvius, another might not be es
tablished for the benefit of the Swedish language; 4. Whether
Magister Unge might not be promoted thereby to something.
I shall write further some other time; I am prevented at
present from doing so.
I remain
Your most faithful brother and servant,
EMAN. SWEDBERG.
Starbo,68 February, 1718.
DOCUMENT 80.
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS.*
Most honoured and dear Brother,
Some time has elapsed since I wrote to you.
The delay is in proportion to the distance, and the rise in the
postage; yet I hope that your confidence remains as before.
We are now daily occupied in bringing the first lock to
completion, which cannot, however, be done before Michaelmas.
The expenses are small beyond all expectation, because the
whole work is of timber. Yet it is built so as to last a
long time, and any part which gives way can be repaired
* Benzelius’ Collection, Vol. XL, No. 136. No. IX , in the Appendix
to Atterbom’s " Siare och Skalder", p. 112. Letter 26, in Mr. White’s “ New
Churchman ," Vol. 2, p. 138.
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