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DOCUMENT 125.
LARS BENZELSTJERNAS TO SWEDENBORG . *
To Assessor E. SWEDENBORG,
Your last honoured letter was received last
November, and sometime afterwards the table of which you
had spoken 87 arrived. I had to use sundry expedients in the
College of Commerce and the Committee on Customs to get
it out of the Custom -house; for it was looked upon as con
traband and subject to confiscation, but it nevertheless got
through purgatory. Many of your friends of both sexes paid
a visit to it in the College of Mines, where the table is
placed, and they examined the beautiful work with surprise
and pleasure. The Court-Intendant, Horleman,96 is the cause
of my answering your letter so late, and only after receiving
your second letter of the 16th inst ; for this same Court
Intendant has been so busy, that I had to wait for a definite
answer from him . He finds the work very well done, and
he and also young Cronstedtf maintain that they have seen
this kind of work abroad, and that it is an artificial com
pound. The above mentioned Court-Intendant does not think
that there is any chance of the master of this art obtaining
employment in this country, inasmuch as the building funds
of the Royal Castle cannot be counted upon for such an
object; and although there may be some who would fancy
such a curious work, still the taste for art in 1696 [?] does not
a
warrant the expectation that it would find many purchasers
now.
Your most faithful servant,
LARS BENZELSTIERNA,
Stockholm , February 22, 1740.
* “Bergius’ Collection," in Stockholm , Vol. XIV, p. 286.
+ Probably Axel Frederic Cronstedt, see Note 107.
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