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674 [Doc. 276.
THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS.
who informed her on the ensuing day that he had conversed
with her deceased husband, who had mentioned to him the
place where the receipt had been put. They examined the
place, and it was found.
"[Such is the usual account of this affair], but again a
distinguished and reliable gentleman, who had been in Stock
holm in the employment of the government, stated a con
siderable time ago that this miracle had taken place in a
thoroughly natural manner. It is not unusual in Sweden for
persons to have a small private locker for books, which for
various reasons they keep secret from the eyes of the public.
One of these private books Swedenborg one day borrowed
from the Count von M., and in it he discovered the receipt
which afterwards was missed, and which probably had been
put in as a book-mark. Instead of informing the widow from
his recollection that the slip of paper would be found in such
and such a locker, in a certain book, he, at least in his own
narrative, first troubled a spirit to give him this news.
"This much is settled, that the widow found the receipt
in accordance with Swedenborg’s information."
The explanations of the "Berlinische Monatsschrift" were
inserted in the "Allgemeiner Anzeiger der Deutschen" for the
year 1809, and in the " Hesperus" for 1822 ; but before shewing
how these attempts at explanation were exploded at the time
of their first publication, we have to quote a Swedish source
which lends credence to one of the explanations furnished by
the "Berlinische Monatsschrift."
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