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460 [Doc. 164,
SWEDENBORG’S OFFICIAL LIFE,
[ The College of Mines, acceding to Swedenborg’s wishes,
addressed the following letter to the King in his behalf:]
C.
THE COLLEGE OF MINES TO THE KING . *
Most Mighty and most Gracious King,
Assessor Emanuel Swedenborg has expressed
to the College in writing his wish to make another journey
abroad, in order that after collecting some information in the
libraries there, he may complete and see through the press
a work begun and elaborated by him, which it is presumed
will be of use to the scientific world in general; and he
desires the College to make a humble application to Your
Royal Majesty for a gracious leave of absence for this journey,
of which nevertheless he cannot prospectively determine the
length, inasmuch as the work which is to be printed amounts
to about 500 sheets, and the despatch with which this can be
done depends upon the publisher and printer, yet it is his
greatest desire to bring this work to a close the earlier the
better, and to return home and continue here that greater work
which he has in hand, the Regnum Minerale, and thus be
of actual use to the public in general, in those matters which
properiy belong to the College. Now, as the above -mentioned
Assessor, during his last journey abroad, produced a clever
philosophical work , which he intends this time to
to com
plete and to bring to a close, and from which the scientific
world will derive pleasure and profit, and his country glory
and honour; and inasmuch as the last time he travelled
abroad Assessor Porath was appointed to perform his duties
in his absence, for which purpose Assessor Swedenborg gave
up half of his ordinary salary, and as he is willing to give
up this in the same manner as before, therefore the College
does not see any reason why the Assessor should not be
gratified in this his praiseworthy object, so that he may be
enabled to finish the work he has begun ; and it therefore
submits in all humility to Your Majesty’s gracious con
sideration, whether his petition respecting his journey ab
* Preserved in the State Archives (Riks-Arkivet) among the letters
addressed to the King in 1743.
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