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DOCUMENT 251.
LIBRARIAN GJÖRWELL’S208 TESTIMONY.*
Royal Library, August 28, 1764, afternoon.
1. A little while ago I, the undersigned, returned
from a visit to Assessor Emanuel Swedenborg, on whom I
had called in order to request, on account of the Royal Library,
a copy of the works he has lately published in Holland.†
2. I met him in the garden adjoining his house in Horns
gatan in the southern part of Stockholm (Södermalm), where
he was engaged in attending his plants, attired in a simple
garment. The house in which he lives is of wood ; it is low
and looks like a garden-house ; its windows also are in the
direction of the garden. Without knowing me or the nature
of my errand, he said smiling, "Perhaps you would like to
take a walk in the garden." I answered that I wished to
have the honour of calling upon him, and asking him, on
behalf of the Royal Library, for his latest works, so that
we might have a complete set, especially as we had the
* This testimony, which was, it seems, written by Carl Christoffer
Gjörwell, the Royal Librarian in Stockholm, on the same day he called
upon Swedenborg, he published in a work entitled "Anmärkningar i
Swenska Historien" (Contributions to Swedish History), Vol. I, Stockholm,
September 2, 1786 ; pp. 220 to 224.
+ Librarian Gjörwell meant the "Four Primary Doctrines of the New
Jerusalem respecting the Lord, the Sacred Scripture, Life, and Faith," and
also "The Angelic Wisdom concerning the Divine Love and the Divine
Wisdom," and concerning the "Divine Providence."
Gjörwell is evidently describing here Swedenborg’s garden-house,
where his library was, and where he frequently wrote; and which he mis
took for his dwelling-house, which was separated from the garden by a
yard ; see Document 140, no. 3, Vol. I, p. 391.
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