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Doc. 309.] 813
THE MISSING MANUSCRIPTS.
hands as security for its repayment. These MSS. consisted
chiefly of the greater part of the Diarium Majus ;* with copies
of the Canones, De Domino, &c., Doctrina de Charitate, Invi
tatio ad Novam Ecclesiam, Supplementum in Coronidem ad Veram
Christianam Religionem, Colloquia cum Angelis, &c. . . .
...
"From the year 1828 until after the death of Mr. Sibly,
which took place on December 16, 1840, the MSS., so far as
known to exist in England, were held as above described,
the Apocalysis Explicata, by the London Printing Society,
the Diarium Majus, &c., by Mr. Sibly, and the Diarium Minus,
by Mr. M’Nab.
Messrs. Wadström and Nordensköld had both died abroad
some thirty years before, the former it is said in France
[see Note 36], and the latter in Africa [ see Note 35 ] . Most
of their contemporaries had passed into the world of spirits,
and of those who remained on earth, no one appeared to
be fully aware of the history of the MSS. Some doubt had
indeed been expressed as to the right of their present holders
to possess them, by a gentleman who was baptized into the
New Church when an infant, at the place of worship in Great
Eastcheap on the same day as Mr. Wadström, -C. A. Tulk,
Esq. Mr. Tulk had some recollection of their early history,
which induced him to believe that they belonged de jure to
the Academy of Sciences : and this opinion he stated publicly,
we believe, on one occasion at a general meeting of the Lon
don Printing Society. Mr. Tulk, however, did not know enough
on the subject to satisfy the minds of others ; and his objections
to the title of the MSS. were in some degree met by the
prevailing idea that although they had been originally bor
rowed by Wadström and Nordensköld, yet that a price had
been put on them by the Academy in the way of penalty, in
case of their not being restored within a limited time, and
that the time having expired, the penalty had been demanded
by the Academy and paid by Wadström’s successors. Of
course this plea only rendered the right of the Academy
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