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Doc. 309.] 825
THE MISSING MANUSCRIPTS.
integrity, all the MSS. which have been entrusted to it by
the heirs of Swedenborg, and to hold them in readiness in
its library for all persons who may desire to study or consult
the posthumous works of this celebrated philosopher.
"VON BRINKMAN,274
"
p. t. President of the Royal Academy of
Sciences ;
"JAC. BERZELIUS
"Secretary to the Royal Academy of Sciences
in Stockholm.
"Stockholm, May 18, 1842."
(
b
) Baron Berzelius to Mr. W. M. Wilkinson, Secretary of
the London Printing Society.*
"Stockholm, May 19, 1842.
"Dear Sir,
"I have to return my best thanks for your
two letters of March 8, and the very accurate explanations
they contain regarding the manner by which your Society
are for the present in possession of the Swedenborg MSS.;
which you are willing to restore to the Swedish Academy,
from which they have been alienated, by the unpardonable
negligence of two persons, to whom they had been entrusted,
under the formal condition and promise to return them after
having taken a more particular knowledge of their contents.
"The Swedish Academy has received with great satisfaction
the assurance, ’that your Committee regards the restitution
.
of those MSS. to their rightful owner as a duty on their part.’
But an insinuation in your Letter no. 1 , ’that the Swedenborg
originals should be restored to the Royal Academy, if we
desire it, and there be no other way of meeting our wishes,’
seems to require a particular and very positive answer on our
part; and I have therefore been charged to declare in the
name of the Academy, ’that it by no means can consider itself
as authorized to consent to any modification whatsoever of its
right to claim the restitution of those originals, which now
* See Report of the Swedenborg Society for 1843, p. 43.
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