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Doc. 269.1 573
GOMM TO HINDMARSH
of reports injurious to the character and writings of Sweden
borg, he exerted himself most strenuously in their defence, as
will in part appear from the following letter which he addressed
to me on a particular occasion:
A.
WILLIAM GOMM, ESQ.241 TO ROBERT HINDMARSH,225
’
My dear Sir,
I am now to trouble you upon an im
portant and interesting subject to us both, and indeed to all
real admirers of Baron Swedenborg.
’A Mr. Vosman (Keeper of the Prince of Orange’s Museum,
or Chamber of Natural Curiosities,) who was personally ac
quainted with the Baron, and who received a volume of his
writings, in which I have read these words in the Baron’s
own handwriting, "Dono miss. ab Auctore," asserts in the most
positive manner, that a Swedish Nobleman, (I think a Baron
or Count Rosenberg,† whom he had desired, upon his leaving
him here in his way to London, to give him the most circum
stantial and authentic account of what he could collect of
Baron Swedenborg’s behaviour in his last hours,) had informed
him, (and he declares it in the most unreserved manner,) that
he had been assured, "that a few hours before his death,
Baron Swedenborg had retracted all he had written. "
’
I need not tell you how truly afflicting such a report is to
all true recipients ; nor (however improbable it seems to most
of us) how very prejudicial it is to Baron Swedenborg’s re
putation. I therefore know you will think no pains a task,
which you can possibly take to enable me to destroy what I
take to be so palpable, as well as disingenuous and illiberal,
a falsehood.
’Consult every body you can think of, my dear friend, who
* This letter was first printed in the "Magazine of Knowledge," 1791,
Vol. II, pp. 296 to 298.
There is no such name on the roll of the Swedish nobles, as con
tained in Anrep’s " Ättar-Taflor." His name may have been Rosenborg;
but the bearers of that name have never been Barons or Counts.
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