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640 [Doc. 274.
THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS.
debt had been paid, but she did not know where he had placed
the receipt. In her trouble she applied to Swedenborg. He
informed her next morning, that he had spoken with her
deceased husband, and that he had declared to him where he
had placed the receipt, and that it would be found in the
place described. The deceased person appeared also to his
widow, in the same dressing gown which he wore before his
death, and having given her the same indications, departed.
She was so much frightened by this, that she wakened the lady
attending her, who was sleeping in the same room, and related
this occurrence to her. The receipt was found in the place
Swedenborg had named. This occurrence made a great deal
of noise at the court and in town, and every one related it
in his own fashion."
The portions of the narrative in italics we challenge as to
their accuracy; for both Letocard and Mr. Green state that
Swedenborg called on Madame de Marteville not "next morn
ing," but after a few days. Besides, if there had been any
truth in the statement, that "the deceased person had appeared
to his widow in the same dressing gown which he wore before
his death," Letocard and the daughter of Madame de Marteville
would certainly have mentioned this circumstance in the
account which they gave of the affair.
Pernety’s version of this story was introduced in 1788 into
a work entitled : Abrégé des ouvrages d’Em. Swedenborg. Stock
holm et Strasbourg (Preface, p. XVIII), and likewise into the
German translation of that work published in Leipzig, 1789,
under the title: Emanuel Swedenborg’s theologische Werke oder
Auszug aus seinen sämmtlichen Schriften (p. 19).
We noticed above that Madame de Marteville did not
leave any direct testimony in respect to this affair ; but she
has left indirect testimony through her second husband, the
Danish General v. E. (von Eiben, as is suggested by Dr. Im.
Tafel in Part III of his German edition of the " Swedenborg
Documents," p. 28). Mr. v. E.’s account agrees in its main
feature with that furnished by Pernety (Section F) ; but it
contains some particulars which the narrator could have
derived only from Madame de Marteville herself. These par
ticulars, however, are blended with some evidently fanciful
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