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Doc. 274.] 635
THE LOST RECEIPT.
would have to pay the sum, which was considerable, a second
time ; she resolved as a last resort to beg Swedenborg
to ask her husband’s spirit about this receipt. She related
to him most faithfully all the circumstances, and some days
afterwards Swedenborg brought back the reply from her
husband, that the receipt, together with some other impor
tant papers, was in a secret compartment in the writing-desk
which he had formerly used ; where it was found.’-The above
account has been acknowledged as true, both orally and in a
written form, by Letocard, the secretary of the legation, in
his capacity of executor of Marteville’s estate."
Letocard’s testimony is fully borne out by that furnished
by Kant’s English friend, Green, who was in Stockholm in
1767 or 1768, and who made it his particular business there
to learn the truth of this affair ; of him also we read that he
became personally acquainted with Swedenborg, who, in proof
of his own supernatural gift, called Mr. Green’s notice "to
certain well-known facts, " i. e. the three facts which are now
engaging our attention.
B.
TESTIMONY OF KANT’S friend, grEEN.243*
"Madame Harteville [Marteville], the widow of the Dutch
ambassador in Stockholm, some time after the death of her
husband was called upon by Croon, a goldsmith, to pay for
a silver service which her husband had purchased from him.
The widow was convinced that her late husband had been
much too precise and orderly not to have paid this debt, yet
she was unable to find the receipt. In her sorrow, and be
cause the amount was considerable, she requested Mr. Sweden
borg to call at her house. After apologizing to him for
troubling him, she said, that if, as all people say, he possess
* This account is contained in Kant’s letter to Charlotte von Knob
loch (Document 271, p. 627), where further particulars respecting its history
may be found.
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