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1130 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
Secretary. He was present at the famous and perilous battle which
ensued there, and was made prisoner. But the King seeing and
admiring his fortitude, redeemed him from servitude. He is described
as a man of remarkable prudence, constancy, justice, probity, and
fidelity." Concerning his state in the spiritual world, where it ap
peared that he did not respect the sixth commandment, see the
"Spiritual Diary," no. 5996.
NOTE 174.
JOACHIM WRETMAN.
Concerning him Cuno says (Document 256, no. 4), "Among the
Swedish merchants of Amsterdam there was one, Mr. Joachim
Wretman, whom I could trust as imbued with Christianity, and a
man of intelligence." And again (Ibid. nos. 10 and 11), “With
Mr. Wretman he (Swedenborg) dined almost every Sunday; he also
was his most intimate companion. When I first invited Swedenborg
to my house, I extended the invitation also to Mr. Wretman." Seven
of his letters to Swedenborg, mostly on business, have been preserved,
viz., Documents 210-214, 219, and 235. He was Swedenborg’s
purveyor of seeds and plants from Amsterdam; see Documents 213,
219, and 235.
NOTE 175.
COUNT GUSTAVUS VON BONDE.
Gustaf von Bonde was Swedenborg’s superior at the College of
Mines from 1721 to 1727. He was born in Stockholm in 1682 ,
studied at Tübingen between 1701 and 1704, where he published
a disputation which treated on algebra and physics. After his
return home in 1705, he became chamberlain to the Queen Dowager ;
in 1711 he entered the College of Commerce ; in 1718 he became
governor of Östergothland, and in 1721 was made President of the
College of Mines. In 1727 he was promoted to the Senate, and in
1737 became chancellor of the University of Upsal. In 1739 he
retired from public life, and devoted himself to the administration
of his estates. In 1760 he was re-called to the senate, and removed
to Stockholm, where he renewed his friendship with Swedenborg, and
exacted a promise from him that he would visit him on his estate
at Hesselby; see Document 216. After a severe illness he died in
1764. To Count Bonde, as President of the College of Mines,
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