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DOCUMENT 309.
THE MISSING SWEDENBORG MSS., AND THEIR
DISCOVERY.
According to a statement of Secretary Berzelius in Docu
ment 308, B, the following MSS. were missing from the Library
of the Academy of Sciences, on October 27, 1841 , viz. nos. 2,
3, 49, 50, 52, 63, and 95 in the Official Catalogue, (Docu
ment 308, A). He states also that by a comparison of the
Official Catalogue with the "printed catalogue" [Document 304],
it is shown that many MSS . entrusted by Swedenborg’s heirs
to the Academy are missing, and that they were lost before
Secretary Wilcke prepared the Official Catalogue, wherefore
they were not embodied in the same.
Our object in the present document will be, first, to define
clearly the character of each missing MS., and, secondly, to
trace its history from 1772 to the present time.
A.
THE MISSING MSS. IDENTIFIED.
By a careful study and comparison of the catalogues which
were prepared before Secretary Wilcke’s Official Catalogue (Do
cument 308, A) , we obtain the following description of the MSS.
which were marked as missing by Secretary Berzelius in 1841 ,
(see Document 308, B.)
1 and 2.-"Nos. 2 and 3," are described in Documents 307
and 308, A, as "Memorabilia ;" and in Document 304, where
they appear as Vols. IV and V, of no. 7, they are discussed thus :
"These volumes seem to contain in numbered paragraphs
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