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816 [Doc. 309.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
agreed, without a single dissentient voice, to restore the MSS.
to the Academy, and to present at the same time to its library
a complete set of the writings of Swedenborg, as published
by the Society, both in Latin and English. Permission was
then obtained from the Academy to copy such of these MSS.
as were not already in print, and subsequently to obtain copies
of others still remaining in its own library. Thus, after a
lapse of about sixty years, the MSS. of Swedenborg again
became possessed by that body to which they had been ori
ginally confided for safe-keeping, and for the honour of the
author, by his heirs. The mode of their restoration was such
as to give entire satisfaction to all parties concerned ; and
owing to the liberality of the Academy, in rescinding, in
favour of two New Church Institutions in this country, (viz.
the London Printing Society and the Swedenborg Association,)
its resolution not to suffer the Swedenborg MSS. to go out
of the walls of its library ; it has been the means of rendering
all that Swedenborg has left behind him-which is still known
.
to exist in his own country,–as perfectly accessible to us
here as if it were our own, and has opened an intercourse of
the most agreeable and honourable kind with one of the most
ancient and learned bodies in Europe, and with its celebrated
Secretary, Baron Berzelius."
E.
DESCRIPTION OF THE SWEDENBORG MSS. RECEIVED BY THE SWEDENBORG
SOCIETY IN 1841.*
"The MSS. obtained from Miss Sibly are nine in number,
of which three volumes are in Swedenborg’s handwriting :
"The first is a portion of the ’Diary,’ now bound up in
two volumes, or parts, so as to diminish the wear and tear
of each volume. The ’Diary’ had the mark ’V
’ on the back
of the old parchment binding. It contains 494 pages ... The
volume commences with p. 3, and no. 3428, and the numbers
cease with no. 6096, on p. 488. " By comparing the description
See report of the Swedenborg Society for 1841, pp. 29 and 30.
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