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PETER SCHÖNSTRÖM . 657
and the transcript made from it by Bergius is all that has been
handed down to us. It seems providential to us that so many of
the letters addressed to Swedenborg, and also first draughts of
letters written by him , have thus been preserved.
The fact of a number of Swedenborg’s letters having been
preserved by Bergius, was not known before the winter of 1868.
During the visit of the editor of these Documents to Sweden in
that year, it occurred to the Librarian of the Academy of Sciences,
Mr. Ahlstrand, to ascertain whether there were any of Swedenborg’s
letters in the Bergius collection; and on meeting with a considerable
number he communicated his discovery to him . On examining the
collection more closely, the editor found in it, in addition, more
than thirty letters addressed by Bishop Jesper Swedberg to Coun
cillor Rosenadler,51 the censor of the press, one letter of Count Höpken
respecting Swedenborg, which is introduced in Note 32, and two im
portant letters of Baron Tilas, addressed to Count Cronstedt, con
tained in Section X.
NOTE 47.
PETER SCHÖNSTRÖM.
Peter Schönström, as appears from Document 9, A, Table III, 1,
was the eldest son of Assessor Peter Schönström, brother of Bishop
Jesper Swedberg. He was born in 1682, became captain in the
“ Adelsfanan,” (the corps of nobility), received the title of lieutenant
colonel in 1722, retired in 1726, and died in 1746. In 1709, he was
made prisoner near the Dnieper, and taken to Solikamsk, where he
was detained till the end of the war in 1722. " In addition to his
merits as a soldier," the Swedish Biographical Lexicon says, ("he
was a very well read man, and during his captivity in Russia he
improved his opportunities by collecting much information relating
to the history of the North.” He wrote a work under the title of
Short directions for improving Swedish history," which was finished
in 1741, but remained unpublished till 1816. His critical investigations
into the early history of Sweden are greatly praised, and he is said
to have started many ideas which have since been adopted by
Swedish scholars. According to Anrep ,48 Peter Schönström , in 1719,
married Agneta Skogh, daughter of Lieutenant-colonel Claës Johan
Skogh and Margaretha Elisabeth Armfelt. By her he had three
sons and two daughters. Agneta died in 1767 at the age of seventy
One of his daughters was married to Baron Örnsköld, and died in
42
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