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554 TESTIMONY OF CONTEMPORARIES. [Doc. 266.
the property of Mr. Shearsmith, and the very same on which
Swedenborg wrote several of his latest productions. This
table Mr. Barge keeps in his parlour, and justly regards it
rather as a memento, than a relic, calling his attention, when
ever he sees it, to those great truths, which were first spread
upon it in the shape of written papers, before they were sent
to the press, and thence propagated in all directions through
out the world at large.* How different a feeling of sentiment
this from the idle superstitions, and idolatrous reverence paid
to old bones, rags, chips, nails, and crosses, by the ignorant
and deluded sons and daughters of the Roman Catholic
Church!
DOCUMENT 266.
TESTIMONY COLLECTED BY J. J. GARTH
WILKINSON, M. D.230+
MR. SHEARSMITH, TESTE MRS. SHAW.
1. Swedenborg left Fetter Lane, because the persons he
lodged with used to meddle with his papers. Shearsmith was
a peruke-maker.
2. Mrs. Cartwright, a lady of property, knew Swedenborg,
and he complained to her. She recommended the Shearsmith
lodging. Shearsmith used to dress her hair. The other people
"Into this table," says Mr. Madeley, "now supposed to be in the
possession of his daughter, Mrs. Tyrrell, Mr. Barge had a brass plate in
serted recording to whom it belonged." This table, at the present time,
is owned by Thomas Watson, Esq. 19 Highbury Crescent, London.
In a letter addressed to Dr. Im. Tafel on March 26, 1842, Dr. Wil
kinson observes, "I have in my own possession a document of this kind,
which I obtained through the kind offices of a relative, Mrs. Shaw, and
which contains some particulars which she heard from Mr. Shearsmith
himself, and which I have not seen anywhere else. I shall communicate
them to you some time. Still this document is not of the same authority
as that of Mr. Peckitt [Document 264], since Mrs. Shaw did not pen it
at the time when she had her conversation with Shearsmith, but dictated
it to me only last year." Dr. Im. Tafel publishes this testimony in the
German edition of his " Swedenborg Documents," Vol. IV, pp. 306 to 308.
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