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1332 NOTES TO VOLUME II
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and has given proofs of his powers in print (see the Daedalus
Hyperboreus), which are in the Crown-Prince’s [?] hands. My next
son, Eliezer, is engaged in mining, and my third, Jesper, is a sailor,
and is now in the Indies. My son-in-law, Lars Benzelstjerna, is a
master of the mines, and Andreas Lundstedt, another, is Master of
the Horse in Your Majesty’s Life Guards. These, I beseech most
humbly, that Your Royal Majesty may, of your grace, be pleased to
exalt to the rank and privilege of Nobles, whereby they will be
greatly encouraged in Your Majesty’s service.
"JESPER SWEDBERG.”
(6.) Bishop Swedberg to the King.*
"Brunsbo, November 2, 1717.
"A humble expression of gratitude, and petition for future favours.
"My son, Emanuel Swedberg, for whose advance
ment to an honourable office I give humblest thanks, has sent in a
humble petition that I, together with Madame Maria Christiana
Bonde (wife of the General), have leave and opportunity given to
establish a copper-mine here, in West Gothland, on the General’s
lady’s estate of Fremstad, in the district of Skaraborg, and the
parish of Vista. The Secretary Cederholm has knowledge of the
circumstances.
"JESPER SWEDBERG."
NOTE 309.
DR. J. F. IMMANUEL TAFEL.
Dr. J. F. Immanuel Tafel, whose name has been frequently
mentioned in these pages in connection with the Documents concern
ing Swedenborg, the Latin reprints of his theological writings, and
the publication of his MSS., was born on Feb. 17, 1796, at Sulzbach
in Würtemberg, where his father was a clergyman. When seventeen
years old he became acquainted with the doctrines of the New Church,
and soon he was so fully imbued with their truth, that he resolved
to abandon the profession of the Law, which he had embraced, in
order to study theology at Tübingen, and devote himself to the
translation and spread of the writings of the New Church. After
finishing his course at the University in 1821 , he issued in the same
year a prospectus for the printing of the writings of Swedenborg,
and a short time afterwards published the "Four Leading Doctrines"
* Edition of 1867, Vol. I, p. 53.
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