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HENRY PECKITT. 1191
The last papers from his pen appeared in the "Intellectual Reposi
tory" for 1830, where he wrote under the signature of "P. S. R. P."
(Park Street, Regent’s Park). His former contributions to the
"Intellectual Repository" were signed "L," and "Lausanne en Suisse."
His last letter to the Swedenborg Society, in which he expresses
his best wishes for its success, is dated Brussels, February 24, 1842.
NOTE 229.
HENRY PECKITT.
The name of Henry Peckitt, Esq. is intimately connected with
that of the early history of the New Church. Mr. Hindmarsh
mentions him as one of those who repaired to the London Coffee
House on December 5, 1783, in order to make the acquaintance of
fellow-receivers of the New Church (concerning which see Note 228).
He says on this subject in his "Rise and Progress," "Another gentle
man, Mr. Henry Peckitt, of 50, Old Compton Street, Soho, a retired
Apothecary, went to the London Coffee House, after we had left it,
in hopes of joining our company; but hearing no tidings of us there,
although we had left word at the bar where we were gone, returned
home without seeing us." On p. 18 he continues, "Mr. Henry Peckitt
also, who had been disappointed in meeting us the former week,
now joined us, and brought with him a rich harvest of information
concerning the personal character, circumstances, and habits of the
great Swedenborg. This information he had carefully taken down
in writing with a view to its being preserved for the gratification
of those who, like him, might hereafter regard every little anecdote
of his life, that could be depended upon for its truth and accuracy,
as a most precious relic. Being myself in possession of all the parti
culars alluded to, I take this opportunity of giving them to the
public, in Mr. Peckitt’s own words, from the original manuscript
deposited in my hands upwards of forty years ago." The text of
Mr. Peckitt’s testimony constitutes Document 264.
Mr. Servanté wrote to Mr. James Glen on June 1, 1806 (see
"Monthly Observer" for 1857, p. 419), "Mr. Peckitt is a very worthy
character, he was brought up a surgeon, but has retired from business
many years. In the former part of his life he studied the mystic
writers, particularly Jacob Behmen (Boehme¹º), Madame Guion, and
others of that class ; but when he saw the superior light, he gladly
received it, although at times tinctured with the colouring derived
from his former studies. He is an antiquarian, an astronomer, and
a lover of natural history, understands the Hebrew and Arabic
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