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DOCUMENT 221 .
FIRST LETTER OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
TO DR. BEYER.2
22 *
Reverend Doctor,
As an opportunity offers, I make use of it to
send you the beginning of the Apocalypsis Revelata, so far as
it is printed. I send you two copies. The remainder, or as
much as may then have appeared, will follow next spring, so
as to complete your copies.
I remain in all friendship
Your obedient servant,
EMAN. SWEDENBORG.
Amsterdam, October 1 , 1765.
* Swedenborg’s letters to Dr. Beyer came at an early period into the
possession of the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm ; where they were
preserved among the Swedenborg MSS. Together with the original draughts
of some of the letters which had remained in Swedenborg’s possession
these letters were bound in one volume at the expense of Augustus Norden
sköld (see Note 35, Vol. I, p. 639). In a catalogue of the MSS. prepared
by Secretary Wilcke, who died in 1796, it is stated that this volume was
"
lent to Wadström."36 Of the nineteen letters belonging to the Collection,
sixteen were printed in the " Samlingar för Philantroper," a Journal
published by the Philanthropic Exegetic Society in Stockholm during 1788
and 1789 (see Note 20, Vol. I, p. 622). The letters seem to have remained
afterwards in the possession of one of the heirs of Gustaf J. Billberg,
Secretary ofthe Society "Pro Fide et Charitate" (see Note 119, Vol. I, p. 705),
until some time in 1866 or 1867 , when they were unfortunately dispersed.
In 1868 and 1869 the Editor of these Documents obtained a clue to the
whereabouts of some of the letters, and the Librarian Ahlstrand of the
Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, acting on his information, succeeded in
establishing the proprietorship of the Academy to them. Mainly through
the exertions of T. A. af Billbergh, Fiscal-Advocate in the Court of Appeals,
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