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230 SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE. [Doc. 216.
I commend myself to you with all due consideration, and
have the honour to remain, with profound esteem and genuine
love,
Your obedient and faithful servant,
L. BARON VON HATZEL,
Chevalier Grand Croix de l’Ordre Constantinien
de St. George.
P. S. Have you ever read Edelmann’s176 writings ? What
do you think of them ?
DOCUMENT 216.
COUNT GUSTAVUS BONDE175 TO EMANUEL
SWEDENBORG.*
Well-born Assessor,
On account of our old friendship I hope you
will not be displeased at the freedom I take in recommending
to you one of my friends in Holland, and the request he makes
in the enclosed letter. His name and address are as follows :
M. d’ Hatzel, Baron, Chevalier et Grand Croix de l’Ordre Con
stantinien, Rotterdam. After corresponding with him for se
veral years on matters connected with medicine and some other
sciences in which he is versed, he wrote to me in the spring
that he had read some of your rare writings, and had heard
that their author was living here in Sweden ; wherefore he begged
me very much to inquire about it, and to let him know. On
receiving my answer he sent me the enclosed letter begging me
to recommend its contents to you in the best manner. As his
handwriting is very indistinct and illegible, I have had it copied,
that you may read and understand it better. In his letter to
* A copy made from the original Document is contained in the Bergius
Collection, Vol. XVI, p. 280, in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in
Stockholm.
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