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820 [Doc. 309.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
G.
ATTEMPTS MADE BY SWEDENBORG’S HEIRS, TO RECOVER HIS MSS. FROM
THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.
Among the correspondence of Dr. Carl Jesper Benzelius,
Bishop of Strengnäs, which is preserved in the Cathedral
Library of Linköping, the editor of these Documents discovered
the two following :
(
a) Declaration of Swedenborg’s heirs.
"We, the nearest relations of our late uncle, the well-born
Assessor Emanuel Swedenborg, herewith request and empower
the high well-born Baron Göran Ulric Fredrikson Silfverhjelm,*
to demand in whatever legal way it may be done, and after
wards to receive, the MSS. and printed books of the above
named Assessor, which the Honourable Eric Samuel Wennberg,
bank-commissioner, together with a descriptive catalogue, left
for safe-keeping at the Royal Academy of Sciences, but
without conveying to it the right of possession. Baron Silfver
hjelm, however, must not make any such general use of this
power of attorney, as can in any way conflict with the in
structions he has received, but must proceed in a lawful manner
in accordance therewith ; in which case we declare ourselves
satisfied with everything he may do.
"Homestead near Skara, June 2, 1788.
JESPER UNGE.
L. S.
SARA LUNDSTEDT.‡
L. S.
"In behalf of my dear brother, Captain Emanuel Sweden
borg, and also in behalf of my sisters, and of myself,
[signed] J. G. SWEDENBORG,†
Major and Knight.
THEOPHILA UNGE.
L. S.
STINA LOUISA UNGE.
L.S."
* Baron Göran U. Silfverhjelm, born 1762, was the son of Baron
Frederic Silfverhjelm and Theophila Unge, daughter of Dean Unge and
Catharine Swedenborg ; see Vol. I, p. 91. Table IV, 2.
Jesper Gustaf Swedenborg ; see Vol. I, p. 92, Table V.
‡ Daughter of Anders Lundstedt and Margaretha Swedenborg ; see Vol. I,
p. 92, Table XIV.
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