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DOCUMENT 160.
SWEDENBORG’S LEAVE OF ABSENCE IN 1734.*
A.
A. Jan. 3. (Assessor Swedenborg absent on his journey
abroad to Saxony.)
January 26. S. 1. There was read a letter which had ar
rived from Emanuel Swedenborg this day, dated Leipzig, the
19th of the present month of this year, in which he applies for
a few months’ prolongation of the permission to stay abroad,
which had been graciously granted him by the King, as
the work he has in the press cannot be finished before the
coming Easter, and as in the interests of that work he desires
to make a trip to Lüneburg and Cassel
, and also promises
to return here during the next summer.
Resolved. As Assessor Swedenborg has not yet finished the
work which he has in the press, aud as he, moreover, intends
on his return home to make a trip to Lüneburg and Cassel,
the Royal College decree that this desired prolongation can
not be denied him.
[The following is a translation of said letter :)
B.
SWEDENBORG TO THE COLLEGE OF MINES.
Most well-born Baron and President, as well as well-born
and esteemed Councillors of Mines, and Assessors.
As at the close of next February the leave
graciously granted me by His Royal Majesty expires, I feel
constrained in great humility to ask the most well-born
President, and most honourable Royal College for a prolon
gation of my leave of absence for a few months; because that
time will be most important to me, as I am at last under
* From the Minutes of the College of Mines for 1734.
* Preserved in the College of Mines among the Bref och Suppliquer
for 1734, p. 27.
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