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DOCUMENT 117.
HENKEL, THE COUNCILLOR OF MINES, TO
SWEDENBORG . *
To Assessor E. SWEDENBORG.
Sir,
I rejoice in the honour of having made your
acquaintance; and this so much the more, because I have
long desired to make it, on account of your great merits,
which your fellow -countrymen who have honoured me with
their visits have testified to. You would oblige me infinitely, if,
in accordance with your offer, you would kindly assist me with
some observations in respect to the mineralogy of your country,
because I shall need them very much in a real mineralogical
dictionary which I am preparing, and which is an enterprise
as difficult as it is important. Mr. Hekel, † an honest man,
understands his business; you will therefore, have patience
with him , if he does not accomplish what he has promised, in
the desired time. I assure you, that no booksellers exist
at the present time among us who will not try to perform their
contract. As for myself I shall never fail to do every thing
for it I can . With all due consideration, I am, Sir,
Your most humble and obedient servant,
J. F. HENKEL . 98
Freyberg, November 21, 1732.
P.S. I have changed my place of abode, and will be for
the future stationed at Freyberg, where His Majesty the King
has placed me in the capacity of Councillor of Mines.
* "Bergius’ Collection," in Stockholm , Vol. XIV , p. 284.
+ Friedrich Hekel, a printer of Leipzig and Dresden, who published
Swedenborg’s “ Opera Philosophica et Mineralia," and his “ Prodomus de
Infinito,” in 1734.
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