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242 SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE. [ Doc. 225.
unrevealed. I have sent your Excellency twenty copies of it.
Messrs. Howen and Zoon are acquainted with the captain who
has charge of them. Two copies of the work I addressed to
the Cardinal de Rohan,* two to the Royal Society of Sciences,
two to the Secretary of State, and one is intended for the
Royal Library. In the same work are inserted various Memor
able Relations of my intercourse with the spiritual world ;
these are separated from the text by asterisks, and are placed
at the end of the explanation of each chapter : as they contain
some remarkable particulars, they will probably excite the
reader to a first perusal. Besides this I have published a
New Method for finding the Longitude, which I discovered
in my youth. Of this I send your Excellency ten copies,
that you may distribute them to such as possess a knowledge
of astronomy. Should a suitable opportunity present itself,
I shall esteem it a favour, if your Excellency would send two
copies of it to the Royal Society in Berlin. This week I shall
set out for London, where I intend to stay about ten weeks,
and where I may be informed whether the books have arrived.
[EM. SWEDENBORG.]
[Amsterdam, about May or June, 1766.]
does not seem to be addressed to the Swedish Ambassador at the Hague,
because Swedenborg speaks of having put the books "in charge of a
captain," and he desires to be informed in London whether "the books
have arrived." That the letter was written to the Ambassador in France
is made probable from the fact that two copies of the work were addressed
to the "Cardinal de Rohan," who was a Frenchman and lived in Paris.
The Swedish Ambassador in Paris, at the time when Swedenborg wrote
the above letter, was Count Ulric Scheffer, with whose brother, Senator
C. F. Scheffer, he was intimately acquainted, and whom, with Senators von
Höpken and Palmstjerna, he had defended before the Swedish Diet in 1761,
(see Document 196). That Swedenborg, about the time when this letter
was written, sent a box of books to France appears from Document 235.
* Cardinal de Rohan-Guémené was born in 1734, and on account of
his distinguished birth was raised at an early period to the dignity of
Archbishop of Strasburg. One of his ancestors, Duc Henri de Rohan, had
been one of the chiefs of the Huguenots ; and the family had always been
favourably inclined towards Protestantism ; which seems to have been one
of the reasons why Swedenborg presented the Cardinal with two copies of
his Apocalypsis Revelata. This distinguished prelate died in 1803.
Concerning this edition of the "Method for finding the Longitude,”
see Document 203.
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