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1192 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
languages, and has a valuable museum of curiosities in his house,
which he is very fond of shewing to his friends. About ten years
ago he married a second time, a young wife, by whom he has a son
now living. I have been lately informed that he is near the verge
of quitting the stage of mortality, but perfectly resigned to his exit.”
C. F. Nordensköld, in a letter addressed to Dr. Im. Tafel on
May 2, 1822, says concerning Mr. Peckitt, "A few weeks after my
arrival in London in 1783, I met at the house of Mr. Chastanier,222
Mr. Peckitt, a gentleman about sixty-three years of age, formerly
a physician and apothecary, a man without children [in 1783], and
rich enough to live on the interest of his money."
The editor of the "Monthly Observer" adds to Mr. Servanté’s
account, "Mr. Peckitt died in 1808. He took an active part in the
early affairs of the Church. He was President of the First Conference
ever held, which was in Great East Cheap, London, from the 13th
to the 17th of April, 1789 ; and he was present at those held in
1790 and 1792."
From Document 309, p. 808, it appears that "the expense of
publishing the Apocalypsis Explicata was ultimately defrayed by
Mr. Peckitt ; being in good circumstances he relieved his friends,
Messrs. Spence, Adams, and Hindmarsh from their share of the
responsibility." While the Apocalypsis Explicata was being printed
in 1785, Mr. Peckitt, as one of the Editors, had in his possession
the Manuscript of Vol. II, when fire broke out in his neighbourhood,
and consumed his own house. The particulars of the remarkable
preservation of the MS. volume are described by Mr. Hindmarsh
in Document 287, pp. 712 et seq. In the same Document Mr. Hind
marsh described Mr. Peckitt’s library which he lost by the fire, in
these words, "Mr. Peckitt’s Library consisted of many thousand
volumes in every branch of science, which had been accumulating
for some years ; besides a rare collection of mystical books, to which
he was known to be very partial, before his acquaintance with the
writings of Swedenborg. But these latter had already considerably
weakened his attachment to the mystic authors ; and the loss which
he now sustained by the fire, had the happy effect of weaning his
mind still more from their abstruse and erroneous sentiments. The
books consumed on this occasion could not have been less, it is said,
than a full waggon-load."
Concerning the MS. of the Apocalypsis Explicata, which had
remained in the possession of the Peckitt family, see Document 309,
pp. 809 et seq. The MSS. and papers of Mr. Henry Peckitt, which
were connected with the New Church, were conveyed by his son to
the Swedenborg Society, in whose Library they are now kept.
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