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DOCUMENT 142.
LETTER FROM THE SWEDISH TRAVELLER,
BJÖRNSTÅHL120 TO DR. CARL JESPER
BENZELIUS, PROFESSOR AT LUND . *
Right reverend Doctor and Professor,
With respect to the books of the late
Assessor Swedenborg, Mr. Springer,121 who was his very in
timate friend, could not help expressing his great astonishment,
that you should never have been able to obtain any infor
mation on the subject; for he himself, about two years and
a half ago, wrote a very minute letter on the subject to
Matthias Benzelstjerna, t the Secretary of State. Mr. Springer
has wondered no less at never having received an answer to
his letter, especially as he had offered his services ; and had
a power of attorney been sent over, all books would doubtless
have been sold, inasmuch as there is a great demand for
them. They may be worth about £200. He has showed
me a copy of the letter, which was written on Nov. 13, 1773,
where the number of all the books in stock at the book
sellers in London is given, and a mode is explained by which
they might be quickly sold, and the heirs in Sweden be
benefited by their sale. If, therefore, you will ask the
Secretary of State for the above-mentioned letter, it will not
be necessary for me to do any thing more in this matter.
Good old Mr. Springer however cannot be troubled any more
with it, as the infirmities of old age have rendered him incapable ;
* This letter is preserved in the Cathedral-Library at Linköping in a
bound volume containing the correspondence of Doctor Carl Jesper
Benzelius.
+ Son of Bishop Jacob Benzelstjerna.?
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