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Doc. 217.] 231
SWEDENBORG TO COUNT BONDE.
me he writes that he has derived inexpressible pleasure and
light from your writings in matters on which he has speculated
for many years ; wherefore he begged me the more to advocate
his request. If you choose to grant his desire, and send me
a reply to his letter, I will take care to get it into the hands
of the owner.
I willingly make use of this occasion to remind you of a
kind promise you made, to honour me this summer with a
visit, and to examine my little garden, so far as it deserves
this name; when you may rest assured that you will be more
than welcome, and when I shall have an opportunity of assur
ing you still more of the constant esteem with which I am
Your most dutiful servant,
GUSTAVUS BONDE.
Hässleby, (Hesselby), August 7, 1760.
DOCUMENT 217.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG TO COUNT
GUSTAVUS BONDE.175*
Your Excellency,
I thank you for the honour of your letter, and
your very kind invitation to Hesselby. The letter from Baron
Hatzel of Rotterdam, which you enclosed to me, I ought, in con
formity with his wishes, to have answered ; but as it concerns
the writings which were lately published in England, and which
appeared without my name, on that account I must not enter
into any literary connection with any one abroad, and thereby
* The original of this important letter is preserved in the Archives of
the Bonde Family in Säfstaholm, (see Forssell, Catalogue of the MSS.
preserved in Säfstaholm). A copy of the original letter countersigned by
Count G. A. Sparre and Baron Axel Hjalmar Leijonhufvud, was most
kindly forwarded by these two nobles to the Editor of these Documents,
on February 22, 1869. A copy prepared from Swedenborg’s original draught
of the letter is contained in the Bergius Collection, Vol. XVI, p. 281.
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