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680 THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS. [Doc. 276.
combines therewith great mental acumen. The author of
no. III is Mr. Letocard, ex-secretary of the Dutch Embassy
in Sweden at the time of the decease of M. von Mardefeldt
[de Marteville], and who still lives in an advanced old age in
Pomerania, and has been an eye-witness of all these occur
rences. I regret very much that special circumstances do not
permit me to give the name of the distinguished writer of
letters I and IV, but I may assure my readers that he is
deserving of the greatest esteem, both on account of his rank,
erudition, and intelligence, and also that his birth alone
entitled him to interrogate at table the late Queen of Sweden,
in respect to her experience with Swedenborg.
"Let any unbiassed man compare the following important
documents with those which have been communicated in the
above-mentioned ’Monatsschrift,’ and he will probably agree
with me that the first explainer is but a shallow anecdotist,
who will scarcely dare to contradict the universally revered
Princess Sophia of Sweden,250 and the Baron Zoye von Man
teuffel, who is doubtless better informed on this subject than
himself.
"In respect to the second explainer, I may state that I
have the honour of being acquainted with him, and that
his words cannot be doubted in the least; it is therefore
utterly incomprehensible to me, how the late Queen of Sweden
could have related this occurrence in a manner entirely
different ; for that she has related this story to others in a
oontradictory fashion is known also to the same worthy
gentleman" ....
I.
LETTER ADDRESSED TO L. L. VON BRENKENHOFF.253
"Berlin, June 8, 1788.
"I enclose the letter which I promised to send to
you. Make a proper use of it. It is interesting on
account of the particulars it contains, which are much
more truthful than those contained in the verbose account
which the anonymous writer has inserted in the ’ Monatsschrift,’
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