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818 [Doc. 309.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
"Sir,
F.
AN INTERROGATORY OF THE SWEDENBORG SOCIETY ANSWERED BY THE
SECRETARY OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IN STOCKHOLM.*
"Stockholm, November 21, 1841.
"In your letter of the 9th September, you
requested from the Secretary of the Royal Academy of Sciences,
in the name of the Committee for Publishing the Writings
of the late Mr. Swedenborg, the following particulars and
details :
First,-A faithful copy of the will of Swedenborg.
"The late Assessor Swedenborg made no will. [See also
Document 141 , Vol. I, p. 393.] His heirs gave over his works
and manuscripts to the care of the Academy, that, to the
honour of his memory, they might for ever remain there.
Secondly,-A copy of a Decree, which has been
made in a cause pending in Sweden, between the
Academy and the heirs of Swedenborg, as to the right
to his MSS.; and a note of the subject of the cause,
and information as to the date of the Decree, and
whether it is final or not.
"The cause of the Decree, of which I hereby send a copy
[see subdivision G of present Document], is as follows : A citizen
of Stockholm (Mr. Berg), had procured an instrument, signed
by all Swedenborg’s then living heirs, in which they resigned
to him their right to the manuscripts ; in consequence of which
he claimed them of the Academy. As the Academy refused
this request, he tried by a law-suit to prove his right ; but
upon an examination of the papers on which were founded
his pretensions on one side, and the Academy’s on the other,
of which the contents are to be found in the Decree, his pre
tensions were condemned. Berg went through all the judicial
instances, and at last appealed to the King’s decision in the
High Court, whose Decree you will find in the copy sent
herewith. It is irrevocable.
* See Report of the Swedenborg Society for 1842, p. 15 et seq.
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