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SWEDENBORG ESTRANGED FROM POLHEM . 635
chamberlain to the King. This engagement Swedenborg seems to
have had in view, when he declared to General Tuxen, that
"once in his youth he had been on the road to matrimony; King
Charles XII having recommended Polhem to give him his daughter;
but that she would not have him , as she had promised herself to
another person, to whom she was more attached. ” This statement
of Swedenborg’s could only have applied to Maria Polhem, inasmuch
as she was actually married about that time to Manderström; while
Emerentia Polhem was not married to Rückersköld30 until 1723, and
she could not have been engaged to be married to him at the time,
because Rückersköld married his first wife, Anna Margaretha Linde
bom, in 1720, and it was after losing his first wife, in 1721, that
he became engaged to Emerentia Polhem, and married her. From
the above passage from Swedenborg’s letter it appears also, that he
was really more interested in Polhem’s second daughter, Emerentia,
than in his eldest daughter, Maria, and it seems quite probable that,
after Maria Polhem was engaged to be married to Manderström ,
her father promised his second daughter, Emerentia, in marriage to
Swedenborg - with what success appears in No. 54 of Document 5.
NOTE 32.
GABRIEL POLHEM.
Gabriel Polhem , born in 1700, inherited his father’s love for
mechanics, but not his inventive genius. He assisted his father in
the building of the dock at Carlscrona, and also at the building of
the locks, and the digging of the Carlsgraf canal, near Wenersborg.
Afterwards he prepared his father’s inventions and papers for the
press, and supplied him in a great measure with the assistance which
Swedenborg had rendered him before. In 1752, he succeeded his
father as director of the Mechanical Institute. He was never m
married,
and died in Stockholm in 1772.
NOTE 33.
SWEDENBORG’S ESTRANGEMENT FROM POLHEM .
The only additional particulars relating to this occurrence
(Document 5, S53) are contained in a letter from Polhem to
E. Benzelius, dated Carlsgraf, April 18, 1719 (Document 84).
It appears from it, that Swedenborg took his experience with
Polhem’s daughters so much to heart, that he broke off for the
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