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634 [Doc. 274.
THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS.
This old gentleman has retired from public life, and lives at
present with his family in Pomerania. As he still keeps up
a correspondence with Sweden, I asked him to collect some
additional true anecdotes about the late Swedenborg. "
A.
LETOCARD’S ACCOUNT.”
"Mr. de Matevell [ Marteville], envoy extraordinary of the
United Provinces at the Court of Sweden, died in Stock
holm in April 1760. Some time afterwards his widow was
called upon by a silversmith to pay for a silver service .
She was astonished at this demand, in view of her husband’s
punctuality in the settlement of his accounts , but was unable
to find the silversmith’s receipt, nothwithstanding all her
researches. As she was very much importuned by that
man, she applied to Mr. Samuel [Emanuel] de Schweden
borg, who told her that he would see her again in a few
days, and give her the answer. He kept his word and said
’
Madame, I have asked the spirit of your late husband, and
he has told me that this receipt is in the secret drawer of such
and such a writing-desk; where it was really found."
Another account furnished by Letocard and where the
name "Marteville" is spelt correctly, occurs in a Swedish work
entitled "Samtidens Märkvärdigaste Personer," Upsal, 1820
in which a short biographical sketch of Swedenborg is given,
which is in part based on oral communications. We read
there (p. 146), ""The husband of Madame de Marteville, who
had been Dutch minister in Stockholm, died during the month
of April 1760 ; and some time afterwards a goldsmith pre
sented a bill , in which he demanded payment for a silver
service which he had furnished. The widow who was not left
in very good circumstances, knew that the bill had been paid,
although she could not find the receipt for it. As the gold
smith threatened to go to law, and she was afraid that she
* Letocard’s Account is contained in Letter 2 in the " Paradoxa."
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