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Doc. 256.] 447
CUNO’S EXPERIENCE.
spends large sums of money on account of his latest work
[Conjugial Love], which fills upwards of forty sheets in large
quarto. I have been assured that his annual income amounts
to 10,000 florins. * His capital must be considerable to yield
such interest. He told me himself that his father was Bishop
of Sweden [ of Skara], but he himself superintendent [assessor]
of mines; and it is quite possible that under such circum
stances he was able to save a good fortune ; for he himself
has never expended much on his own body, and he has never
been married. How snugly he might live on such a fortune
in Stockholm, where he has a splendid palace [!] and garden.
But as it is, he has been travelling about for many years,
and has lived mostly in London, and recently for nearly three
quarters of a year in Amsterdam ; and in this place at least
he has lived in a most simple style.
9. The cause of his journeys, I believe, has been exclusively,
because here and in London he had full liberty accorded to
him to print whatever he liked ; which liberty would never
have been granted to him in his native town, and probably
nowhere else in Christendom.
10. He has himself lived very frugally. Chocolate and bis
cuits served in his own room usually constituted his dinner;
and of this his landlord, his landlady, and the children gener
ally received the greater part. If he had a better appetite
he went into a neighbouring restaurant in the so called "holy
way;" and this after much inquiry I learned from himself
only a short time before his departure. He was far from
being misanthropical and obstinate. Whoever invited him to
his house was sure to have him. In addition to Messrs.
Hope & Co., who were his bankers, he sometimes dined with
his countrymen, the Messrs. Grill, 112 and others. With Mr.
Wretman174 he dined almost every Sunday; he also was his
most intimate companion.
11. When I first invited Swedenborg to my house, I ex
tended the invitation also to Mr. Wretman. I might have
invited many more; for many were anxious to make the
* Swedenborg’s annual income in 1766 amounted to 5196 dalers in
copper; see Document 13 .
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