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DOCUMENT 263.
TESTIMONY COLLECTED BY PETER PROVO.223
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A.
223*
TESTIMONY COLLECTED FROM MR. ERIC BERGSTRÖM,224
On May 2, 1787, Mr. Provo called on Mr. Bergström,
who keeps the King’s Arms Tavern, in Wellclose-square ;
who, in a conversation of an hour’s length, related to him as
follows :
1. I was personally acquainted with Assessor Swedenborg:
he frequently called on me, and once lived ten weeks together
with me in this house ; during which time I observed nothing
in him but what was very reasonable and bespoke the gentle
* This Document was inserted in the "Intellectual Repository" for 1836,
by the Rev. S. Noble, who, in a letter to the Editors of that work, gives
the following account of its contents :
"Gentlemen,
"In my ’Appeal in Behalf of the Doctrines of the New
Church,’ &c., I have made some use of the following Anecdotes. Except
as to the extracts given there, they have never been printed. Every
authentic testimony, however, respecting the gifted individual to whom they
relate, ought, I think, to be put on record in some permanent Repository.
I therefore transmit them for your work. The paper sent was transcribed
by me from a copy in the handwriting of the late Mr. Servanté,227 lent by
that gentleman to me for the purpose. He informed me that his was
transcribed from a copy in the possession of Mr. J. A. Tulk; 228 who,
Mr. Servanté understood, had it from Mr. Provo himself. Mr. Peter Provo
was a respectable gentleman of the medical profession, who published the
work called ’ Wisdom’s Dictates.’
"I am, &c.
"Dec. 15, 1835,"
"S. NOBLE.
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