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Doc. 100.] 335
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS.
With my kind regards to sister, I remain, most honoured
brother,
Your most obedient servant,
[signature cut off]
[No date, but written in 1723; for in that year Lagerberg,
Gyllenborg, and Cederhielm received their appointments as
councillors of state ).
To Assessor LARS BENZELSTJERNA
at Säter or Starbo.
DOCUMENT 100 .
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS. *
Most honoured and dear Brother,
I had the honour to receive your letter on
the 3rd inst. I am infinitely obliged to you for letting me
know in time that I shall not be able to have any grain from
the Academy. As I found that there was some delay in the
matter, and as at the iron -works they were finishing the pre
paration of the charcoal, the hauling and every thing else, I
thought it best meanwhile to provide myself from some other
source. I had never any doubt of your kindness and care in
this matter, and I should be very sorry, and indeed very
much grieved, if you should have any idea that I thought
otherwise; for what you promise, I know to be promised so
far as it lies in your power; I am therefore just as much
obliged to you, as if it had turned out well. It is, never
theless, true that the Academy’s treasurer or commissary has
been guilty in this matter of a trickery, which no business
man would ever allow himself to become guilty of, viz. of
acting against a resolution of the Academy. If this should
occur more frequently, their credit in the end will become
very small; for in a similar case it would be far preferable
* “ Benzelius’ Collection," Vol. XL, No. 151.
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