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Doc. 155.] HIS LIFE AT THE COLLEGE IN 1723. 431 .
have neglected thereby some of my private affairs, I therefore
beg most humbly of Your Excellency, and the Honourable
College of Mines, that you will grant me leave of absence, to
look after my little property in the country.
Awaiting your most gracious consent, I remain, most respect
fully, Your Excellency’s and the Honourable Royal College’s
Most humble servant,
EM. SWEDENBORG .
Stockholm, October 29, 1723.
The College acceded to Swedenborg’s request, but it
ordered that, before leaving, he should first report himself to
His Excellency the President.
[From the proceedings of the law -suit adverted to in our
Document 132, it appears that Swedenborg went to the iron
works at Axmar, Gestrickland, of which he owned one-fifth ,
and his aunt Brita Behm four-fifths, and that he went to
erect there, at their joint expense, a new furnace, to replace
one which had been destroyed by the Russians, when they
landed there in 1721.]
DOCUMENT 155.
SWEDENBORG’S LIFE AT THE COLLEGE IN 1724.*
A.
April 28.
It was resolved by the College of Mines to make an
application to the King, requesting that, as Assessor Bromell72
had been appointed physician to His Majesty (archiater) and
as Assessor Benzelstierna who had hitherto only a bergmaster’s
salary of 800 dalers in silver, had succeeded to Assessor
Bromell’s salary, Assessor Benzelstierna’s salary of 800 dalers
in silver be given to Assessor Swedenborg, who had hitherto
laboured in the College without salary.
Swedenborg was again present at the College on May 18,
and he was further present on May 20, 21, 22.
On May 23 he presented a letter on a suit pending in
the College between the iron-works at Krabsjö and Norgowik.
* Extracted from the Minutes of the College of Mines for 1724.
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