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Doc. 266.] TESTIMONY COLLECTED BY WILKINSON. 555
were so angry at his leaving them, that they spread a report
that he was mad.
3. Swedenborg said that his doctrine would not be preached
for twenty years after his death: and Mr. Shearsmith went to
hear the first sermon by Mr. [James] Hindmarsh at that time.
4. Swedenborg desired Mr. Shearsmith never to disturb
him, when in his spiritual state. Sometimes he was two or
three days in it. Shearsmith remarked a very peculiar look
about his face at such times, and sometimes feared Sweden
borg was dead. He, however, told him never to be troubled :
all would be well.
5. Swedenborg took a great deal of snuff.
These things were told to me by Mrs. Shaw, who had
them from Mr. Shearsmith personally. Mrs. Shearsmith was
then dead.
Written down by J. J. G. Wilkinson.
This is all true.
E. O. SHAW, 13 Store Street, Bedford Square.
July 17, 1841.
[ The following memoranda were written on the reverse
page :]
6. Swedenborg’s hair was not dark, but approaching to a
pale auburn. His eyes were gray, approaching to brown. He
wore a wig, as was the custom of his time.
7. Flaxman232 examined the skull of Swedenborg at
Mr. Charles A. Tulk’s233 in the presence of Mr. Clowes218
and Mr. Clover,* and he said: "How beautiful the form- how
undulating the line here; here’s no deficiency, Mr. Clowes."
Smiling he said, "Why I should almost take it for a female
head, were it not for the peculiar character of the forehead."
On the question of whether a cast should be taken, Mr. Flaxman
* Probably Mr. Joseph Clover of whom Mr. Madeley gives us in
Hindmarsh’s "Rise and Progress," &c. (p. 317) the following account:
"Mr. Clover was Barrack-Master at Norwich, and was extensively known
and respected: he departed this life on June 10, 1824, in the sixty-eighth
year of his age. He may be said to have been the founder of the Norwich
Society, and he was also one of the trustees of Mrs. Mary Berry, and, with
his colleagues, gave to the Conference the first donation on its list, amount
ing to £300, and which is now called the Berry Gift."
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