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DOCUMENT 274.
THE LOST RECEIPT.
Many versions of this story exist , which may be traced
back to eleven different sources.
From the two dramatis personæ, viz. Swedenborg and Madame
de Marteville, no direct testimony is preserved ; although
Robsahm and Bergström relate their narrative as they heard
it from Swedenborg’s own lips.
Next in importance is the testimony of Mr. Letocard, the
Secretary of the Dutch embassy in Stockholm, who lived at
the house of M. de Marteville, and was an eye-witness of the
whole affair. His testimony agrees with that of Mademoiselle
de Marteville, the ambassador’s daughter. The testimony of
these two persons was collected in 1788 by the Countess de
Schwerin,249 sister of Madame de Marteville,* and was published
in 1789 by L. L. von Brenkenhoff,253 in a separate little work,
to which we shall have occasion to refer more fully in
Document 276. This little work escaped the attention of
Dr. Im. Tafel, and hence its contents have not heretofore
become known to the admirers of Swedenborg.
We shall begin our investigation with Mr. Letocard’s
testimony, which, according to the Countess de Schwerin,
thoroughly agrees with that of her niece, Mademoiselle de
Marteville. Concerning Letocard himself, she says : "The
gentleman who for twenty years was Secretary of the Dutch
Embassy, under my late brother-in law, is called Letocard .
* See Notes 43 and 249.
+ "Paradoxa, zweites Bändchen, nicht militärischen sondern die Pseudo
Aufklärung betreffenden Inhalts," von L. L. von Brenkenhoff, Potsdam,
1789.
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