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DOCUMENT 235.
SEVENTH LETTER OF JOACHIM WRETMAN¹74
TO EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.*
Well-born Assessor and kind Patron,
It will be a great pleasure to me to hear
that you continue to enjoy good health. I received the
following answer from Rouen, dated June 29, 1766, concern
ing the books which were shipped last summer to France:
"
We received the box of books from Captain Peter Boores,
and have consigned them to a friend for distribution. It
is detained in the syndical chamber of the libraries in Paris ;
but as the books are addressed to gentlemen of note, they will
no doubt be released, but not without causing our friend some
trouble in going to and fro." I have not heard anything
since, wherefore I have no doubt that they were duly distri
buted. My chief object in making this communication is to
have the opportunity of presenting to you some of the seed of
the well-known egg-plant or tree, which must be sown as soon
as the frost is out of the ground. I shall be glad to hear of
their doing well, and of your being pleased with them.
Besides I have the honour of commending myself to your
precious and constant favour, and remain always, with all due
deference,
Your humble servant,
JOACHIM WRETMAN.
Amsterdam, March 21, 1767.
The Swedish original from which the above translation has been made
is in the Archives of the Swedenborg Society, London (see footnote to
Document 210).
Further particulars respecting these books may be learned from Docu
ment 225, whence it appears that they were addressed to the Swedish Am
bassador in Paris, Count Ulric Scheffer. About the same time, and while
the books were on their way to Paris, there was a change of administration
in Sweden, which resulted in Count Scheffer’s recall ; so that on the arrival
of the books he was no longer in Paris to receive them. He was succeeded
by Count G. Ph. Creutz.
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