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636 [Doc. 274.
THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS.
ed the extraordinary gift of conversing with the souls of the
departed, he would perhaps have the kindness to ask her
husband how it was about the silver service. Swedenborg
did not at all object to comply with her request. Three days
afterwards the said lady had company at her house for coffee.
Swedenborg called, and in his cool way informed her that he
had conversed with her husband. The debt had been paid
seven months before his decease, and the receipt was in a
bureau in the room upstairs. The lady replied that the bureau
had been quite cleared out, and that the receipt was not found
among all the papers. Swedenborg said that her husband had
described to him, how after pulling out the left hand drawer
a board would appear, which required to be drawn out, when
a secret compartment would be disclosed, containing his private
Dutch correspondence, as well as the receipt. Upon hearing
this description the whole company rose and accompanied the
lady into the room up-stairs. The bureau was opened ; they
did as they were directed ; the compartment was found, of
which no one had ever known before ; and, to the great astonish
ment of all, the papers were discovered there, in accordance
with his description. "
The leading features of this account were confirmed by
Swedenborg to Bergström,224 who gave the following account
of it to Provo.
C.
BERGSTRÖM’S 224 ACCOUNT.*
"Swedenborg also related the affair of the Countess de
Marteville, from whose husband’s information, after his decease,
he told her where a receipt for a sum of money lay; where
she found it; for which she wished to make Swedenborg a
handsome present, but he refused it."
* See Document 263, no. 5.
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