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724 [Doc. 291.
ANECDOTES AND MISCELLANIES.
Emanuel Swedenborg. And when the elder brother of the
wife of Professor Risell, who was then a mere boy, stepped
forward to tell him why they entered his house, and that
they were the children of Bishop Halenius, Swedenborg inter
rupted the lad by saying, ’I know it already, for your father
has just been with me, and has told me that you were coming.’
He then asked them to step into his room ; and after con
versing with him for about an hour, until the rain stopped,
they continued on their way."
4. Madame A. A. De Frese, wife of the late Captain Carl
Georg De Frese , and grand-daughter of the Manufacturer
Bolander of Gottenburg, mentioned in the following account,
told the editor of these documents during his stay in Stockholm
in 1869, the following anecdote :
"In a large company assembled in Gottenburg about 1770
in honour of Swedenborg, there was present the Manufacturer
(
Fabrikör) Bolander , who was the owner of very extensive
cloth-mills. During dinner Swedenborg suddenly turned to
Mr. Bolander, and said to him sharply: ’Sir, you had better
go to your mills !’ Mr. Bolander was very much surprised at
the tone of voice in which Swedenborg spoke to him, and
thought it anything but polite ; but he rose nevertheless from
the table, and went to his mills. On arriving there he found
that a large piece of cloth had fallen down near the furnace,
and had commenced burning. If he had delayed but a little
longer, he would have found his property in ashes. After re
moving the danger, Mr. Bolander returned to the company and
expressed his thanks to Swedenborg, telling him what had
happened. Swedenborg smiled, and said that he had seen the
danger, and also that there was no time to be lost, wherefore
he had addressed him thus abruptly. "
5. In the biographical sketch of Emanuel Swedenborg,
written by Baron Beskow,263 the Secretary of the Swedish
Academy, and read before that body on January 24, 1859,
we find the following anecdote communicated to the author by
one of his friends, And. Fryxell :254 *
* See "Svenska Akademiens Handlingar" (Transactions of the Swedish
Academy), for the vear 1859, p. 215.
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