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406 [Doc. 147.
SWEDENBORG’S OFFICIAL LIFE,
the purpose of exsiccating vitriol, and inasmuch as this seems
both necessary and useful for the country in future times, it
is our gracious will and order, that you take this subject into
due consideration, and afterwards submit to us the opinion
at which you arrive on the subject. We commend you to
the grace of God Almighty.
ULRICA ELEONORA.
Stockholm, November 14, 1719.
To the College of Mines, together with the humble petition
handed in by Assessor Swedenborg.
DOCUMENT 147.
SWEDENBORG TO THE COLLEGE OF MINES.*
To His Excellency the President, the honourable Vice- Presi
dent, and the Councillors and Assessors of Mines.
As there is nothing I wish more ardently than
to have an opportunity of giving satisfaction and being of
actual service to Your Excellency and to the Honourable
Royal College, I therefore, for this very reason, am embolden
ed to approach you with a humble prayer, that you would
support the petition, in which I apply to you in the deepest
humility, to graciously provide me with some salary or
other means of support, by virtue of my appointment as an
extraordinary Assessor , or that you would interest your
selves in my behalf in any other may seem to
you best. I feel the more justified in making this humble
application, as I have already spent whatever has come
to me by inheritance and through other channels in per
fecting myself in what I thought would help to make me
useful to my country, and in travelling abroad for four
years, and more recently in assisting the Councillor of Com
merce, Polhem , in the construction of docks and shuices, in
which I, at my own expense, obeyed the most gracious
way which
* Preserved in the College of Mines among the “Bref och Suppliquer"
for 1720, p. 2.
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