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306 (Doc. 84.
SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE.
of your arrival. Please present my respects to Count Mörner,
and remember me kindly to sister Anna . I remain
Your most obedient and faithful brother,
EMAN. SWEDBERG.
Brunsbo, December 8, 1718.
P. S. Gyllenlöw, a redoubt near Frederickshall, was taken
by storm on the 27th November.
I expect my sledge, my furs, and muff.
DOCUMENT 84.
POLHEM TO BENZELIUS. *
Reverend and most Learned Librarian,
Most honoured friend and patron,
I hope the friendship which we formerly culti
vated by letter has not ceased, although our correspondence
has stopped for some time. On these matters I have conferred
instead with Assessor Swedberg, and I have done so partly
on your recommendation, and partly because the Assessor has
a quick genius for grasping and ventilating such subjects. We
have been mutually pleased with our conference, or at least
with our correspondence, but I am troubled about its
tinuance, as it has been interrupted for some time, and I have
received three of my letters, which I had written to him , un
opened from Stockholm . And as I understand that he is pro
bably now at Upsal, I must beg you to offer him my greeting,
or else to send it to him by letter wherever he may be at
present, and also to ask him to favour me with one of his
welcome letters, which are so much the more acceptable in
our house, as he has given us sufficient cause to love him as
our own son. With regard to the work at the locks, you are
aware it is suspended at present between the will of going on
with it and the universal poverty; for although several thousand
* Polhem’s MSS. in the Benzelius Collection at Linköping, p. 385 .
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