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Doc. 273.] 631
SPRINGER’S ACCOUNT.
burg, Swedenborg was told that his house had been consumed
by a great conflagration, in which almost the whole of the
southern suburb of Stockholm was destroyed in 1759. ’
No,’
replied he, ’my house was not burnt; the fire did not extend
so far.’ He spoke truly, and the occurrence had been so
recent, that he could not have received the particulars by
letter, or from any other person.’
This version of the story is not corroborated by any other
authority; while the leading features of the account, as furnished
by Kant and Stilling, are confirmed by Swedenborg himself,
who told the story to Bergström as follows :
D.
99
SWEDENBORG’S ACCOUNT TO BERGSTRÖM
.*224
"Swedenborg also related the story of the fire at Stock
holm : that after he had gone out from the company into the
garden of the house at Gottenburg, he returned, and told the
company soon after, that his house and garden were safe, and
described how near the flame had come to it, though no
account from thence had then arrived. "
E.
SPRINGER’S ACCOUNT.
* See Document 263, no. 6.
1. The account which Springer himself gave in his letter
to Pernety (Document 261 , no. 12), in the form in which he
had derived it from Swedenborg is as follows :
"I asked Swedenborg whether it was true, as I had been
informed, that when he was at Gottenburg (a town about
sixty Swedish miles from Stockholm), he had foretold to his
friends, three days before the arrival of the post, the precise
hour of the great fire that had happened in Stockholm, to
which he replied that it was exactly true."
2. Peckitt229 gives us the story from Mr. Springer’s mouth
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