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DOCUMENT 104.
JESPER SWEDENBORG62 TO HIS BROTHER
EMANUEL . *
To Assessor E. SWEDENBORG .
Most honoured and dear brother,
I had the honour to answer by the last
post your two agreeable letters, but I forgot to write about
several important matters, which I now wish to submit to you.
1. The first point is about my specie rix -dalers, which you
were kind enough to send to Mr. Myra, who is chaplain of
St. Mary’s Church in Stockholm; he has received the royal
commission for Floby (Floda ?].
2. The other point is, whether you think I ought to go
out to America again, or not. I have a great inclination to
go, but good advice is sometimes very necessary in such
a matter. Some advise me to go there again, and others
dissuade me from it; most dissuade me.
3. In case I should go, I should like you to receive my
money here, and to procure for me again letters of exchange
on London, to be payable either at Consul Ahlström’s,94 or
at any other banker’s, as you may think best. About this and
similar things I should like to get your advice, when I go
out again .
Mr. Ahlström ” was here to-day; he left for Stockholm .
94
He has a great desire to talk with you ; he wishes very much
to take you with him to England, where he will show you
much that is interesting, and that would be useful to the
country. He has done some great things here at Alingsås,
and he has had machines constructed, the like of which
" Bergius’ Collection," Vol. XIV, p. 287.
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