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Doc. 189.) SWEDENBORG TO BARON HÖPKEN. 529
all in general wherever they may be. My having mentioned
you in it, and having placed you in the same category with
myself, was for the purpose of exempting you from it, and
thus of preventing you from attributing to yourself anything of
what followed. When spring comes I expect to have the honour
of your company in my garden, and hope that you will enjoy
yourself there with Oelreich,109 the Councillor of Chancery, and
his good lady.
I remain with all due respect,
Em. SWEDENBORG .
(Stockholm, February 17, 1761.)
DOCUMENT 189.
LETTER FROM SWEDENBORG TO [BARON
CARL FREDRIC HÖPKEN.]*13
Pro Memoria.
You will kindly permit me to send you these extracts from
the book of Nordencrantz,133 the Councillor of Commerce, which
are made for the purpose of proving that the excerpts and the
remarks made upon them which I have quoted and sentyou before,
are correctly stated ; for otherwise the author and his sup
porters may spread the idea, that these things are connected
in a different manner. Will you, high -born Baron and
President, upon receiving this, kindly give it a cursory ex
amination ; it consists of mere extracts without any indication
that the former belongs to me, but not the latter. I do not
know whether I dare take the freedom of asking you to have
four copies of the enclosed made by one of your subordinates,
so that upon receiving them I may be able to present one to
* Compare Document 183. The original draught of this letter, of which
the above is a translation, is preserved on leaf 55 of the volume of Sweden
borg’s " Riksdagsskrifter " in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in
Stockholm .
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