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Doc. 274.] 637
THE LOST RECEIPT.
D.
DR. CLEMM’S ACCOUNT.
"In Stockholm a widow was hard pressed by a creditor,
after the death of her husband. As she well knew that her
husband had always been accustomed to settle his accounts
promptly, she took refuge with Mr. Swedenborg, requesting
him to interrogate the spirit of her late husband on this sub
ject. This he did, and he brought back the answer, that the
document on which the creditor acknowledged the receipt of
the money would be found in a certain place in a bureau,
described by him. The receipt is said to have been discovered
there."
This is one of the three facts related by Dr. Clemm. The
editor of a collection of documents concerning Swedenborg
published in Hamburg in 1770, furnishes the following confirma
tion of this account: "The correctness of the facts related by
Dr. Clemm has been attested by a distinguished Swedish gentle
man, who was in the suite of the present King of Sweden,
when as Crown-Prince he passed last year through Hamburg
on his way to France. In a large and distinguished com
pany, while they were sitting at table, he declared that these
facts were commonly known as such in Stockholm, and that
they were not subject to any doubt. " This distinguished gentle
man, we have reason to believe, was Count C. F. Scheffer
(see Note 136) .
Stilling’s account in his "Theorie der Geisterkunde" scarce
ly differs from that of Dr. Clemm.
The story of the " Lost Receipt," as told by Mr. Letocard
and endorsed by Mademoiselle de Marteville, and further as
* "Einleitung in die Religion und gesammte Theologie" (Introduction
to Religion and universal Theology), by Dr. Heinrich Wilhelm Clemm,
professor of theology in Tübingen, Vol. IV., p. 205, &c., published in
Tübingen in 1767. As in the same volume, and in the same part of the
volume, Dr. Clemm publishes the Latin originals of Swedenborg’s letters
to Prelate Etinger, it seems probable that his account of the "three extra
ordinary facts," including that of the "lost receipt," was furnished to him
by that gentleman.
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