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822 [Doc. 309.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
His Majesty’s revision by His and the Kingdom’s Supreme
Court of Swea, respecting a demand made by summons issued
by the said Plaintiff before the Inferior Court of the City of
Stockholm, that a Collection of Manuscripts in the hand
writing of Emanuel Swedenborg, deceased,-together with part
of his Correspondence and various other Documents, which,
according to a catalogue of the same, were, on the 27th of
October, 1772, delivered to the Academy of Sciences by the
Bank-Commissary, E. Wennberg, and the Referee, C. Ben
zelstjerna, on behalf of the heirs of the said Swedenborg, in
order, in the manner as was likewise requested, to be pre
served in the library of the said Academy, with that care which
was expected from the contents of the said Documents, and
which the respect due to the deceased and the honour of his family
then and at all future time required, might- inasmuch as such
delivery for the purpose of safe custody could not be viewed
in the light of a transfer, whereby the heirs of Swedenborg
resigned their legal right to the Documents in question, in
favour of the Academy of Sciences- be accounted for accord
ing to the catalogue referred to, on the ground of such deli
very by the heirs of Assessor Swedenborg, and be handed
over to the Plaintiff as the rightful owner of the same. In
which Suit, not only the Inferior City Court, on the 1st of
August, 1827, but also the Chief City Court, on the 29th of
September following, did, by reasons stated, exempt the Aca
demy of Sciences from the claim thus set up, and the Supreme
Court, to which the Plaintiff has appealed against this decision,
has, by a Decree of the 15th of February in the present year,
given it as its opinion : That inasmuch as Bank Commissary
Wennberg and the Referee Benzelstjerna did, after the demise
of Assessor Swedenborg, on behalf of his heirs, on the 20th
of October, 1772, deliver to the Academy of Sciences the
Assessor’s Manuscripts and Letters in question, accompanied
with a request that the same might be preserved in the library
of the Academy with that care which was expected from the
contents of the Documents, and which the respect due to the
deceased and the honour of his family then and at all future
time required ; which delivery, whether Wennberg and Ben
zelstjerna did produce any special order from the rest of
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