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DOCUMENT 131.
BISHOP JESPER TO HIS SON JESPER.90
[On March 3, 1720, died the second wife of
Bishop Swedberg, Sara Bergia, daughter of the Dean And.
B. Bergius, at Norrberke, Dalecarlia. She was sole owner
of the Starbo 68 iron -work in the parish of Norrberke, which
she left to Emanuel Swedenborg. At first she had intended
him to be her sole heir, but on the representation of the
Bishop she consented that the other children should have
an equal share ; she insisted, however, that her son Emanuel
should remain the sole owner of the works, and that he
should pay the other children their share in money. All
this appears from the following letter, which was written by
Bishop Swedberg to his son Jesper,62 who was at the time
in America. The division of the property of Sara Bergia must
have taken place some time in the winter of 1720, as, by the
funds accruing from this inheritance, Swedenborg was enabled
to make his journey abroad in 1721, and to print sundry
books there. The Swedish original of the following letter is
in the Bergius Collection of letters in the Academy of
Sciences in Stockholm , Vol. XVI., p. 288, and according to a
statement of Bengt Bergius, it was copied by him from the
original letter.]
My dear son Jesper Swedberg,
I forgot to inform you about the will of my
late wife. She had always said, even while she was in good
health, that after her death Emanuel should have her pro
perty at Starbo.68 I reminded her of this when I found that
she was about to die, when she repeated the statement.
But I begged her not to exclude the other children. When
she said, they may have equal shares, but Emanuel shall
have Starbo alone, and he shall pay out the others. On
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