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[Doc. 155.
SWEDENBORG’S OFFICIAL LIFE.
SWEDENBORG TO THE COLLEGE OF MINES. *
To His Excellency the President, and to the
Honourable Councillors and Assessors of Mines,
Inasmuch as Col. Wollan obtains a privilege
for a new process of making steel in Sweden, and as I have
during my stay abroad collected information from Vienna
concerning a process, by means of which steel may be pro
duced of such excellence as may be desired, and according to
which it may be made better and harder, if more time is
allowed for it, and at a lower price, than by following the
usual methods, I therefore, for the purpose of reserving the
right of trying and testing this process, and if found serviceable
of making use of it, leave in the hands of Your Excellency
the President, a copy of this process, before the privilege is
granted to Col. Wollan, and request most humbly an entry
on the Minutes on this subject.
I remain, most respectfully, Your Excellency’s and the
Honourable Royal College’s
Most humble servant,
Em. SWEDENBORG .
Stockholm, September 16, 1723.
Swedenborg was further present in the College: Sept. 19,
30; October, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16, 18, 23, 24, 25, 29.
D.
October 30.
The followingletterwas read, inwhich Swedenborg applied for
leave of absence, to attend to some private affairs in the country:
SWEDENBORG TO THE COLLEGE OF MINEST
To His Excellency the President, and the
Honourable Councillors and Assessors of Mines,
Inasmuch as I have been obliged during the
session of the last Diet, ever since the beginning of the
present year, to remain constantly in Stockholm, and as I
* Preserved among the letters ( Bref och Suppliquer) addressed to the
College in 1723, p. 220.
† Preserved among the letters ( Bref och Suppliquer) addressed to the
College in 1723, p. 354.
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