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978 SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS. [Doc. 313.
The dates
Part III of the Memorabilia contains nos. 3428 to 4544.
in the work begin with October 2, 1748, and terminate in no. 4389
with September 15, 1749. From nos. 4390 to 4544 no precise date
is given. This part of the Memorabilia fills that portion of Codex 3
which Swedenborg wrote during the time that intervened between
his arrival in England in October, 1748, and his departure for
Sweden in the spring of 1750. During his journey to Sweden in
1750 he seems to have kept the record of his spiritual experiences
in a little pocket volume which was published by Dr. Im. Tafel
under the name of " Diarium Minus" (no. 97). This little pocket
volume he used until the close of November, 1751, when he returned
again to Codex 3, and wrote that portion of it which constitutes
Part V of the Memorabilia (no. 99).
Part III of the Memorabilia was published by Dr. Im. Tafel in 1843
under the title, Diarii Spiritualis Pars Secunda. A few years after
wards it was published in English by Prof. George Bush of New York.
For further particulars, see Document 310, Codices 2 and 3.
1750 and 1751. (97.) Memorabilium pars quarta ("Memora
bilia," Part IV) , in MS ., pp. 134, 16mo.
This is the little work mentioned above, (no. 96,) which Dr. Im. Tafel
published in 1843 under the title, Diarii Spiritualis Pars IV, sive
Diarium Minus.
" The numbered paragraphs run on consecutively
with the Memorabilia, Part II (no. 92), and commence with no. 4545,
These numbers, however, are continued only through about half the
volume, viz. to no. 4715, or to p. 43 of the printed copy. From
pp. 43 to 84 the paragraphs are unnumbered.
As to the time during which this little work was written, one of
the paragraphs on p. 47 of the printed copy is dated fifteen days
after the death of King Frederic of Sweden; as this King died on
April 10, old style, 1751, this paragraph must have been written on
April 22, 1751. Again, a paragraph on p. 65 was written three
days after Polhem’s death, who died on August 31 , 1751 ; so that
this paragraph must have been written on September 2, 1751.
Finally, on the last page of the little treatise, or p. 84, the date of
November 19, 1751 , occurs. From this it follows that pp. 47 to 84
were written between April 25 and November 19, 1751 : If, there
fore, 37 pages of this little work were written during seven months,
the preceding 47 pages must have been written during the nine or
ten months previous, so that the author must have commenced it
some time in June or July, 1750, and thus about the time when he
returned to Stockholm in 1750.
For further particulars, see Document 310, Codex 95.
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