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386 SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE. [ Doc. 246.
sheet of the manuscript to Amsterdam, we learn, that "he
died after a few days’ illness, in the year 1779" (see “Nya
Kyrkan," &c., Part III, p. 25, and also Note 22).
DOCUMENT 246.
FIRST LETTER FROM SWEDENBORG TO THE
LANDGRAVE OF HESSE - DARMSTADT, 205 *
Most Serene Duke,
On receiving your most gracious letter, I
was doubtful for a time whether it was signed by yourself
or not. The subject of this doubt I communicated to Venator,205
who was with me. After hearing, however, that my suspicion
was unfounded, and after my doubts were thus dispelled, I
felt I had wronged you ; but I deferred my reply until
I had received from the press the theological work, just
published, which is entitled, "The True Christian Religion,
containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, predicted
by the Lord in Daniel vii, 13, 14, and in the Revelation xxi,
1, 2." Of this I have sent your most Serene Highness
two copies by the stage which leaves this city daily for Germany.
* The editor was fortunate enough to obtain Latin copies of Documents
246, 247, and 248, during his stay in Sweden in 1870. From these the
above translations have been made. Documents 246 and 247 were
originally printed in a French translation of the " Intercourse between
the Soul and the Body," published in London in 1785. These two
letters were republished in the Introduction to the French translation
of "The True Christian Religion," published in Paris in 1802, together
with a French translation of Document 248. Document 246 was translated
into English by the Rev. Samuel Noble, and printed in the "Intellectual
Repository," for 1815, p. 310, whence it was introduced into the English
editions of the "Documents respecting Swedenborg" published in England
and America. Documents 247 and 248 appeared in English for the
first time in the edition of the "Swedenborg Documents," published in
Manchester in 1841.
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