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DOCUMENT 206.
SWEDENBORG’S JOURNAL OF TRAVEL
FROM 1736 TO 1739.*
1736.
June 1. I received the gracious permission of His Majesty
again to travel abroad for three or four years, for the pur
pose of elaborating another work (compare Document 162,
Vol. I, p. 454).
July 3. I took leave of Their Majesties at Carlsberg ;†
they were very gracious.
Between the 3rd and 10th of July I took leave of the
members of the Diet, my friends, and others; and on the 9th,
of the members of the Royal College [of Mines] .
On account of my journey I have given up one-half of my
salary ; 300 dalers in silver of this being added to the salary
of Secretary Porath,127 who was to discharge the duties ofthe
assessorship, his post being taken by the Fiscal-Advocate
Bierchenius,129 and that of the latter by Notary Thunberg; a
new notary having to be appointed in his stead who is to re
* The original of this Journal, which was written by Swedenborg in
the Swedish language, is contained in Codex 88, pp. 504-542, of the
Swedenborg MSS. which are preserved in the Library of the Academy of
Sciences in Stockholm. A Latin translation of this journal prepared by
Dr. Kahl of Lund was published by Dr. Im. Tafel in 1844 under the title :
Swedenborg’s Itinerarium, Sectio Secunda. A photo-lithographic copy of
the Swedish original is contained in Vol. III of the Swedenborg MSS.,
pp. 50 to 79, from which the above translation has been prepared.
Carlsberg is a royal castle in the neighbourhood of Stockholm, which
was changed in 1792 into a military academy.
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