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482 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc. 256.
to the time I am now writing this (October 15) I have not
yet had a call from him, and my time has not permitted me
to visit him. He certainly has not come here for any other
object than to get something printed again."
F.
CUNO’S EXPERIENCE OF SWEDENBORG IN 1771.*
1. Cuno in a letter, addressed to an intimate friend in
Hamburg, which is dated January 26, 1771 , says,
"You ask me what this old man is now do
ing? I will tell you. He eats and drinks very moderately,
but sleeps pretty long, and thirteen hours are not too much
for him. When I informed him that his work "The Earths in
the Universe’ had appeared in a [German] translation, his
eyes, always smiling, became twice as bright. He is now in
defatigably at work ; yea, I must say that he labours in a most
astonishing and superhuman manner at his new work. Six
teen sheets, in type twice as small as those used in his
former works, are already printed. Only think ! for every
printed sheet he has to fill four sheets in manuscript. He now
has two sheets printed every week. These he corrects him
self; and consequently he has to write eight sheets every week.
And what appears altogether incomprehensible, he has never
a single line in reserve. His work is to consist, as he says
himself, of eighty printed sheets ; he has thus calculated al
* The following two letters were addressed by Cuno to two of his
friends in Hamburg. They were first printed in Hamburg in 1771 in a
pamphlet bearing the following title: " Sammlung einiger Nachrichten
Herrn Emanuel Swedenborg und desselben vorgegebenen Umgang mit dem
Geisterreich betreffend" (Collection of some news respecting Mr. Emanuel
Swedenborg and his alleged intercourse with the Spiritual World). The
whole of this pamphlet was inserted by Prelate Etinger in his "Schwedische
Urkunden," &c., pp. 101 to 121 ; whence it was introduced into Dr. Im.
Tafel’s German edition of the "Swedenborg Documents." An English trans
lation is likewise contained in the English and American editions of these
documents.
The editor of the "New Jerusalem Magazine" for 1790, who quotes
(pp. 223 and 224) a short extract from this letter, says in a footnote, "This
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