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778 INTRODUCTION.
The aim of the editor has been to furnish in this Section
definite information respecting every line written by Sweden
borg, so far as any trace of it has been preserved ; and thus,
among other things, to give a minute description of all the
MSS. which, after Swedenborg’s death in 1772, were consigned
by his heirs to the care of the Royal Academy of Sciences
in Stockholm- with a view of settling the much debated question
as to whether any of these MSS. have been lost.
The final result of the editor’s investigation is this : that
absolutely none of the MSS. deposited by Swedenborg’s heirs
in the Academy of Sciences have been lost, and that at the
present day they are all on the shelves of its library, with
the exception of Vol. IX in no. 11 of Document 304, A, (one
part of Codex 113 in the "Official Catalogue of the Sweden
borg MSS.," Document 307), and Vol. II in no. 12 of Docu
ment 304, A, (Codex 50 in the "Official Catalogue") ; of
these two codices, however, copies were prepared under the
superintendence of A. Nordensköld, and these copies have
since been printed under the auspices of the Swedenborg
Society of London. It is, however, a matter of regret that
some of the letters described in subdivision C of Document 304
have been lost ; although of the most important of them copies
have been preserved, (see Document 312).
The only MSS., or rather parts of MSS. , known to exist at
the time of Swedenborg’s death, and of which no copies have been
preserved, are (1) a record of his dreams from 1737 to 1739,
(see Document 304, subdivision B, no. 9, p. 784), and (2) a
portion of the appendix to the "True Christian Religion,"
entitled "Coronis," &c., concerning which the editors of the
"New Jerusalem Magazine" for 1790 declare, "that, as they
were informed by Dr. Messiter, in whose hands this valuable
MS. was left, nearly one half of the copy had been mislaid
and finally lost at the doctor’s house" (see p. 224).
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