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744 [Doc. 295.
ANECDOTES AND MISCELLANIES.
F.
FIFTH LETTER OF BISHOp swedberg TO THE KING,
"Most Mighty King, Most gracious Lord,
"I am desirous to help my children forward
as far as I can in Your Royal Majesty’s service. My son
Emanuel is of Polhem’s mind, and has travelled in foreign
parts for four years, and has given proofs of his powers in
print, see [Dædalus Hyperboreus]. My next Eliezer," the Bishop,
according to Mr. White, recites here as before the family
register. "These, I beseech most humbly, that Your Royal
Majesty may, of your grace, be pleased to exalt to the rank
and privilege of Nobles, whereby they will be greatly encouraged
in Your Majesty’s service.
"JESPER SWEDBERG.
"Wennersborg, April 23, 1716."
DOCUMENT 295.
A LETTER FROM SWEDENBORG TO TRIER,*
THE AULIC COUNCILLOR, IN DRESDEN.
†
Most Illustrious Councillor,
Accept my best thanks for the kind transmission
of the neat drawing of the marmoset, imprinted in so lifelike
a manner in a stone. With your permission, most illustrious
councillor, I should be glad to insert this new specimen in my
work. Of all those of the same kind, which have as yet
* In Document 205, p. 72, of this volume Swedenborg describes his visit
to Mr. Trier, the Aulic Councillor, in Dresden.
The Latin original of this letter is in the possession of John Bragg,
Esq., Birmingham.
The copper engraving in question is contained in Vol. II of Sweden
borg’s Opera Philosophica et Mineralia, p. 169.
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