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DOCUMENT 113.
BISHOP SWEDBERG TO HIS SON EMANUEL. *
To Assessor E. SWEDENBORG .
My dear son, Eman. Swedenborg,
1. I have written to Assessor Benzelstierna,
that either you or he ought to go over to Upsal, and look
after my large stone house there, which must be repaired this
summer, or else it will go to ruin, and be beyond repairing.
2. I wish you would apply to the authorities for leave to
take out of Skepsholm a number of my psalm books. I wrote
about this to both Their Majesties, and the Queen most
graciously answered me, that it shall be done. Talk with
Lady Dubet about it.
3. I have the spiritual exercises of my catechism in the
press. As you are a good Latin poet, I wish you would
write a few verses for it. It is the book which was burnt
in the year 1712 ; two copies were, however, found in the
ashes, a little singed outside, but not as to their contents.
4. Send me a hundred copies of my portrait or pictures,
which also escaped being burnt in the same conflagration;
and as you have written some clever verses upon it, I shall
let them be printed, and added to the picture. You may
send them with Consul Ahlström, 94 who is in Stockholm on
account of his works at Alingsås.
5. Send also Scriver’s Gotthold, which is said to be trans
lated into Swedish.
6. I have written a copy of my biography for each of
my children. Write me also some verses for it. I think
* “ Bergius’ Collection ," in Stockholm , Vol. XIV, page 294.
+ Probably Baroness Frederica Ulrica von Düben, in attendance on the
Queen, who was married in 1734 to Skutenhjelm , the Councillor of Court.
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