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396 SWEDENBORG’S PRIVATE PROPERTY. [Doc. 142.
it would therefore be best for you to put the whole matter .
into the hands of Mr. Clas Grill,112 an honourable Swedish
merchant in this place, and a good friend of Mr. Springer, 121
who will assist you with his advice, and will procure the
services of a man able to estimate the value of books, as you
cannot in such a matter depend on the booksellers them .
selves.
I undertand that many books of the same kind are also
in store at Amsterdam ; I wish I had known about them
while I was there. If Mr. Springer’s letter had been answered,
this matter could have been settled both in England and in
Holland. Are you acquainted with the circumstance that the
Assessor had moneys on deposit with the Messrs. Hoop in
Amsterdam? those which he had deposited with Mr. Lindegren17
in London have long since been paid off and despatched.
Do you not consider it good and advisable that a small
stone should be raised in the Swedish Church, where Assessor
Swedenborg is buried, upon which at least his name, with
the date of his birth and death, should be engraved ? This
cannot be very expensive; and he has been such a very
remarkable man. Several of his books have been trans
lated from Latin into English ; one has been accompanied with
a very clever preface by Doctor [?] Hartley, who was an in
timate friend not only of the Assessor, but also of his mode
of explaining the Bible.
Your obedient servant,
JACOB JONAS BJÖRNSTÅHL.120
London, March 2, 1776.
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