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Doc. 114.] 353
UNGE TO SWEDENBORG .
very highly of your verses. My dear wife desires to be
remembered to you. Remember me kindly to Assessor Benzel
stierna. Vale.
Your most obedient servant,
J. SWEDBERG.
Brunsbo, April 10, 1730.
DOCUMENT 114.
MAGISTER UNGE TO SWEDENBORG.*
To Assessor E. SWEDENBORG.
Most honoured and dear brother,
You are probably aware that Brunsbo was
again reduced to ashes by a vehement conflagration between
the 18th and 19th of August, and the Bishop came very near
being burnt himself. The large wooden building together
with the stone house is destroyed, and everything it contained.
The silver in the chest, as much as was in it, was saved, but
every thing out of it, for ordinary use, was lost. All our dear
father’s printed works, the newly re-printed Catechism , all his
manuscripts, with the exception of one copy of the book of
sermons, and one of the biography, and his entire remaining
library, are lying in ashes. This latter damage is almost greater
than the first. Three banknotes were saved, one for 900 dalers,
another for 1,060 dalers, and a third for 1,686 rix -dalers in
silver, if I remember rightly. I think there were four bank
I .
notes, but you probably know, as you collected the interest
last. Before brother Swab 66 left, the Bishop gave him a quit
tance for all he had cost him , which was considerable.
The printer, the rogue, had, against my advice and consent,
prevailed on the Bishop to reprint the Catechism , for which
he received a considerable sum, so that the Bishop is now in
* Bergius’ Collection, Stockholm , Vol. XIV , p. 293.
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