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828 [Doc. 309
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
MSS. to members of the Academy, all the precautions and
formalities may not have been observed which we have since
found necessary to establish relative to our library, archives,
and collections of every description.
"In reply to some other questions contained in your letter
I have only to observe, that the Catalogue communicated to
the Committee was drawn up by Mr. Wilcke,270 then Secre
tary of the Academy, [Document 308, A], and contains an
inventory of all the objects then to be found in his custody,
together with some notices of what had already been lost.
The collection of the Swedenborg MSS. had already been
delivered to his predecessor, Mr. Wargentin,269 by whom
authentic receipt and quittance were given to the heirs of
Swedenborg.
"The catalogue quoted in the Royal Decree [ Subdivision H,
of the present Document], is the same which the heirs of
Swedenborg call ’the original catalogue,’ and of which your
Committee has communicated to us an English translation.
"The two MSS., ’Collections d’Expressions Bibliques’ and
’
Index des Expressions Bibliques,"
* and in general all those
whose titles are in French in the Catalogue sent by your
Committee, are in our catalogue noted by Swedish titles, where
fore their translation has been found convenient ; but the MSS.
themselves belong to those which were lent to Mr. Norden
sköld, and which have not been restored.
"The MS. of the Arcana Cœlestia, chap. i to xix, is only
a rough draught, of which a fair copy had not been delivered.
"Dear Sir,
"Your most obedient Servant,
"JAC. BERZELIUS.
"To Mr. Wm. M. Wilkinson,
"Secretary of the London Printing Society. "
* The catalogue sent by the Committee of the Swedenborg Society to
the Royal Academy, seems to have been that which Chastanier appended
to his French edition of the "Intercourse between the Soul and the Body,"
published in 1785.
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