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Doc. 261.] 529
SPRINGER’S TESTIMONY.
2. It is to be observed that Assessor Swedenborg was not
a count but only a simple nobleman from the year 1719. His
father, Jesper Swedberg, was Bishop of Skara, a man of
great learning ; but this Emanuel Swedenborg received richer
endowments from God. His knowledge, as well as his sincerity,
was great. He was constant in friendship, extremely frugal
in his diet, and plain in his dress. His usual food was coffee
with milk, and bread and butter; sometimes, however, he partook
of a little fish, and only at rare intervals he ate meat ; and
he never drank above two glasses of wine. He was indifferent
to places of honour, wherefore about 1746 he determined to
apply for a discharge from his official duties [ see Document
166, B]; but the King granted to him as a pension half the
salary of his office, which he enjoyed until the time ofhis decease.
3. I am delighted from my whole heart to learn that you
intend to translate some of his works, that they may become
more generally known ; and that you have chosen the one
which is entitled Arcana Cœlestia. It consists of eight volumes,
and costs at present eight guineas, or eight pounds, eight
shillings sterling. His work entitled, Coronis seu Appendix ad
Veram Christianam Religionem, sells for two shillings. The
expenses for carriage may amount to three shillings ; so that
the total sum for these works will be eight pounds, thirteen
shillings. An opportunity of sending them viâ Hamburg will
occur every month.
In accordance with your wishes I presented myself before
the Count de Luzi and informed him of the commission with
which you had charged me. He replied that he had not yet
received any advice, but as he was very well acquainted with
you, this would suffice, and that he would take upon himself
to advance the money for the books ; he, however, added
afterwards that he considered it advisable to inform you of
the price, before making the shipment. It will, therefore,
entirely depend upon you to inform me whether you wish to
have them sent.
4. I suppose you possess another Latin work of the late
Swedenborg entitled, De Cœlo et Inferno. I could wish,
nevertheless, that you were in possession of the English trans
lation prepared by the learned Rev. Thomas Hartley. It is
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