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DOCUMENT 141.
A.
LETTER WRITTEN BY MR . CHAS. LINDEGREN117
TO MESSRS. BOHMAN, HASSEL AND GÖRGES,
DATED JULY 18, 1772.*
By Captain Fox, of the ship Nancy, I forwarded to you
all the effects of the late Assessor Swedenborg which I
received from himself, or found in his lodgings, and which
are specified in the enclosed bill of lading. They are of
little value, especially his clothes and linen, which I should
not have sent, if I had not thought that his dear and
worthy family would wish to possess something which was
worn by the good and worthy man in this life. The most
important is a brown parcel sealed, and addressed to yourself,
in which there are all-important documents and bills for the
moneys which he drew from young Mr. Clas Grill and myself,
all of which are sealed up ; in order to avoid all suspicion,
I must beg you not to break the seal, except in the presence
of some of his relations, and of the agent Carl Wm. Seele.
Besides this I paid to him in cash £70, for which I have
two receipts, and also 12 guineas and 1 Dutch ducat
during his sickness, and likewise 5 banknotes, which, accord
ing to the enclosed specification, amount to 2140 dalers in
copper. The bank-bills I will send to you by next Tuesday’s
post, because it is safer. There are now only a few unsold
books left with two booksellers, concerning which I will
report in my next by post.
In addition I will only repeat, what I have already
reported to the agent Seele, viz. that the deceased has not
* These two letters have been transferred from Count Engeström’s library
to the Royal Library in Stockholm.
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