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Doc. 196.] 549
VINDICATION OF HIS CHARACTER.
circumstance we must record the fact that the document in
question has disappeared from Delagardiska Arkivet, which
is preserved at the present time in the University Library at
Lund, whither the archives of Count De la Gardie141 were
removed in 1848 by the editor of them . This fact was elicit
.
ed by the editor of these Documents, when in the year 1869
he called at the University Library at Lund, and desired to
see the original document. The obliging Librarian led him
into the room where Delagardiska Arkivet is kept, but to
the Librarian’s own astonishment he could not discover the
document. The editor of these Documents deplores this circum
stance very much, because during his protracted stay in Stock
holm, while superintending the printing of a photo-litho
graphic edition of Swedenborg’s MSS., he became thoroughly
familiar with his handwriting, and could have told at once
whether the document in question was in his handwriting
or not.
While declaring against the genuineness of this document,
and believing that it is wrongly attributed to Swedenborg by
the present Dean of Gottenburg,140 we desire, however, to ex
press our respect for this gentleman, on account of his many
valuable contributions to Swedish history, and his most excell.
ent hand-book of Swedish Literature, Sveriges Sköne Literatur;
and especially on account of the many interesting biographical
articles furnished by him to the Biografiskt Lexicon, on which
we have largely drawn in the preparation of the Notes at
the end of the present volume.
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