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832 [Doc. 309.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
This volume continued in the possession of the Upsal Uni
versity until 1870, when, by the exertions of the editor of these
Documents, it was restored to the Academy of Sciences. About
the same time notice was received in Stockholm of two other
manuscript volumes which were in the Library at Upsal, and
which it was surmised had likewise been written by Sweden
borg. At the request of Mr. J. A. Ahlstrand, librarian of
the Academy of Sciences, the editor made a close analysis of
the original catalogue prepared by Swedenborg’s heirs (Docu
ment 304) and the Official Catalogue (Document 308, A), and
soon inferred that these volumes must be nos. 9 and 10 in the
list of missing MSS. (p. 805). A copy of this analysis with
a description of the volumes as contained in Document 304,
was at once forwarded by the Academy of Sciences to Upsal,
when it was found that this description completely tallied with
the volumes themselves. They were restored to the Academy
of Sciences before the editor left Stockholm in 1870, and
upon a closer examination they were found to be part of
Swedenborg’s Indexes to the Arcana Calestia concerning which
Mr. Wilcke stated at the close of the Official Catalogue that
"
theywere likewise borrowed by Nordensköld, inspector ofmines."
These MSS. were afterwards entered in the Official Catalogue
of the Swedenborg Collection (Document 308, A), as codices
112 and 113.
Another missing MS. which the editor was instrumental in
bringing to light is no. 5, which is "no. 52" in the Official Cata
logue (Document 308, A), and there described as "Swedenborg’s
letters to Dr. Beyer," and of which it is stated that it was
"
borrowed by Wadström." Soon after the editor’s first visit
to Sweden in 1868, he learned from an antiquarian bookseller
that about a year ago these letters had been offered to him
for sale, the person who owned them [Fåræus,275 * Coun
cillor of State (Stats-Råd)] having departed this life. Upon
* On p. 386 we expressed a supposition that these letters had been in
the possession of G. F. Billbergh, Secretary of the Society "Pro Fide et
Charitate," but we have since found the following statement made by the
Secretary of the Swedenborg Society, Mr. W. M. Wilkinson, in the Society’s
Report for 1853, where he gives a description of a journey he made in
Sweden, in 1852 : "At Gottenburg the Secretary called on the Statsråd
.
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