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Doc. 309.] 805
THE MISSING MANUSCRIPTS.
a letter which A. Nordensköld wrote to Finland in 1782,
"I continue to have copied out fairly each day some interest
ing MS. of Swedenborg which I borrow from Wargentin269 at
the Academy of Sciences. I get only such MSS. copied as
we may expect to get published. Those which have already
been copied out are as follows : 1. A Summary Exposition of
the spiritual sense of the Prophets and Psalms, 2. An excellent
and complete Index to the Apocalypse Revealed, which will
certainly be printed, &c. Twenty copies of the book, which,
as you are aware, I had printed in London, arrived in this
country about six months ago."*
The other MSS., which A. Nordensköld had copied about
that time, were the "Hieroglyphic Key," and the "Divine Love
and the Divine Wisdom" appended to the "Apocalypse Ex
plained ;" besides several more specified on p. 806. These copies
he was compelled by circumstances to give up to his brother C. F.
Nordensköld,20 in whose debt he was, and who was then thinking
of going to England, in order to have them printed there. In
his book entitled : Considérations Générales sur le Christianisme
Actuel," C. F. Nordensköld2º furnishes the following information,
in respect to the mode in which some of the Swedenborg MSS.
were conveyed by him to England. On p. 27 he says, " In
the year 1783, Mr. Wargentin,269 Secretary of the Academy,
permitted Swedenborg’s MSS. to be transported by sea to
London, in order that such as should be deemed proper might
be published. Among these was one MS., written out clean
for the press by the author, which was entitled : Apocalypsis
Explicata. This was handed in London to Mr. Peckitt,229 the
president of a society whose object it was to publish the works
of that author." On p. 290 he explains his own connection
with these MSS. thus : "I had heard that there was a Society in
England whose object it was to print the writings of Sweden
borg, and I had in my possession some rare manuscripts of
that author, which I thought deserved the greatest attention.
My ardent desire to see these MSS. printed caused me to
* The book to which A. Nordensköld alludes here is the Latin edition
of Swedenborg’s "Coronis to the True Christian Religion," which he had
printed in London, in 1780, at his own expense.
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