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INTRODUCTION.
This Section contains the result of a thorough investi
gation of the writings of Swedenborg, both published and
unpublished, undertaken by the editor of these Documents in
1868 and 1869, in accordance with instructions from the
General Convention of the New Church in America, and the
American Swedenborg Document Committee. Details of this
mission are contained in the Preface to the first Volume of
the present work. The editor’s labours began in Sweden, and
extended to Germany, Italy, and England. In Sweden he
explored the Library of the Academy of Sciences, the Royal
Library, and the Archives of the College of Mines in Stock
holm, and the Cathedral-library in Linköping ; and he con
sulted, besides, the university libraries of Upsal and Lund.
In Germany he examined the literary and epistolary remains
of C. F. Nordensköld,20 which are preserved in Berlin by
his youngest son Otto von Nordensköld ; and likewise the
literary remains of Dr. Im. Tafel of Tübingen, who had col
lected much valuable information for a future bibliography of
Swedenborg’s writings. In Italy he instituted a search in
most of the leading libraries of the peninsula for a physiolo
gical treatise on the Fibres and the Animal Spirits, which
Swedenborg is reputed to have published in Rome in 1740.
The result of this search is contained in Document 313, under
the year 1740. In England, finally, he finished his researches
into the history of those Swedenborg MSS
., which Messrs.
C. F. Nordensköld20 and C. B. Wadström36 brought to England
in 1783 and 1788, and which in course of time came into
the possession of the Swedenborg Society of London . The
results of this investigation are contained in Document 309.
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