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406 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc. 252.
In respect to the publication of these letters, General
Tuxen wrote, under the date of May 8, 1790, to C. F. Norden
sköld,20 as follows : "I will send your brother [Augustus
Nordensköld ] at the earliest opportunity, according to his
request, a short description of my acquaintance and con
versations with the late Swedenborg [Document 255] , as well
as a copy of the only letter I received from him [Docu
ment 245, W, p. 371 ] , likewise copies of the supplication to the
King [Document 245, X, p. 373 ] , and several other documents
I myself received from him, together with certified copies of
the four or five interesting letters which the late Count Höpken
addressed to me. All these documents your brother said he
would translate into English, and publish in a Magazine on
Swedenborgianism, which would appear in London ; by which
means they would become quickly and widely known."
The documents forwarded by General Tuxen to Augustus
Nordensköld were published in the English language in an
"Appendix to the New Jerusalem Magazine," printed about
the middle of 1791, pp. 267 to 274. They appeared after
wards in Noble’s " Appeal," and were thence introduced into
the English editions of the " Swedenborg Documents" published
in England and America.
A.
FIRST LETTER OF COUNT A. J. VON HÖPKEN29 TO GENERAL
CHRISTIAN TUXEN.20
"Sir,
me.
"My stay in the country, at a distance from the capital
and the great world, is the cause of my answering later than
I ought the letter of April 21st, with which you have honoured
The office with which I was invested in my country, has
often made it my duty to give my opinion and counsel in
delicate and difficult matters ; but I do not recollect any one
so delicate ever before to have been submitted to my judgment,
as that which you have been pleased to propose to me. Senti
ments and persuasions which one person may entertain, do
not always suit others ; and what may appear to me probable,
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