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SWEDENBORG TO THE KING .
graciously grant me leave to absent myself, during three or four
years, from the public duties in Your Royal Majesty’s College
of Mines, and that you would allow me during that time, while
I elaborate and finish my work, to stay abroad in any place
where I may most conveniently carry on my work, i. e. where
I may find all necessary help in libraries, and may profit by
conferences with the learned, and where also I may publish
my work when it is finished, which cannot be done at home in
this country. I meanwhile entertain the hope, that this work
will probably be of use to the public, and that it will have at
least the effect upon the common opinion among the learned,
that there are some in our dear native land who can elabo
rate and publish some things for the general good in science
and literature, upon which other nations pride themselves in
comparison with ourselves.
I feel so much the more assured in all humility of the
most gracious assent of Your Royal Majesty, inasmuch as
Your Majesty’s and the Country’s College of Mines will, at
Your Royal Majesty’s gracious command, make an humble
proposition to you, how this whole matter may be best ac
complished, without any part of Your Royal Majesty’s service
being neglected. I remain, to the hour of death, most gracious
King, Your Royal Majesty’s
Most humble and faithful servant and subject,
EMAN. SWEDENBORG .
His Royal Majesty graciously desires upon this subject
the humble opinion of His Majesty’s and the Country’s College
of Mines.
By the most gracious command,
O. CEDERSTRÖM.128
Stockholm, May 24, 1736.
After this letter had been read Assessor Swedenborg ex
pressed himself orally, that, for the sake of finishing the work
he had commenced, he required to be free and away from his
official duties for three or four years, even as he had mentioned
in his humble petition to the King; and as he is well aware
of the importance of having these duties meanwhile attended
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