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Doc. 276.] 687
ATTEMPTS AT EXPLANATION.
and Baron Zoye von Manteuffel told the story in the same
fashion during their stay here last winter. The Princess of
Sweden added that she had been astonished at finding in
some French journal, that a fact, the reality of which was
acknowledged by so many persons who were still living and
who were present [ when it happened], had been called in
question, &c., &c.
V.
LETTER BY THE COUNTESS VON SCHWERIN.249
"Letocard is the name of the gentleman who for twenty
years was secretary of the embassy of the United Provinces,
under my late brother-in-law. This old gentleman has retired
from his duties, and lives at present with his family in
Pomerania. As he still keeps up an active correspondence with
Sweden, I asked him to try to collect some additional genuine
anecdotes about the late Swedenborg. If the testimony of a
sister of the late Madame de Mardefeld can be of use in
verifying what took place between Swedenborg and my sister,
you are quite at liberty to make use of my name ; since I
am always ready to seize every opportunity of manifesting the
perfect respect with which I have the honour to be, &c., &c.
"COUNTESS VON SCHWERIN,
"née VON AMMON.
"Berlin, June 9, 1788. "
There is one fact which seems pretty well established by
the present investigation, viz. that the Queen herself did not
always relate her experience with Swedenborg in the same
fashion; nay that she actually denied to one gentleman that
Swedenborg brought her any message at all from her de
ceased brother. Her reasons for doing so are stated by Count
Höpken thus: "She did not wish any one in Sweden to be
lieve that during a war with Prussia she had carried on a
correspondence in the enemy’s country " (see Document 275,
p. 660). "The same caution," Höpken continues, "Her Ma
jesty exercised during her late visit to Berlin. When she
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