The Moetal Remaiîjs of Swedenboeg. 11 



London for the 4th of July, 1819, [Appendix^ No. 1), and by a com- — .^ 



munication from the son of Pastor Wahlin to R. L. Tafel. 32 (Vol. II., A^ .o** 9 



P-1207). Dliüvar 



Regarding the date of the theft the accounts are not fully in \^,\ .^^^^^ 

 agreement. »Tertius interveniens» gives 1816, (compare hoM-ever with V^Xfl^'cis'S'^ 

 the note on the preceding page), Hawkins the close of the year 1817. y^ 



The last mentioned year one also finds again in the article in the 

 Intelledaal Repository^ which, however, adds that the robbery occurred 

 on the occasion of the opening of the vault for the reception of the 

 body of Baroness Nolcken, ' widow of the Swedish Ambassador, which 

 statement, most probably correct, makes it possible to fix the date so 

 exactly as the beginning of the month of July in the year 1816. 



The motive for the theft is stated by Noble and »Tertius interve- 

 niens» to have been phrenological interest; the person who removed 

 the skull »did not admire Swedenborg, but Gall, and expected to fix 

 the orcjaii of iinagination beyond any doubt.» {Appendix, No. 4). 



Hawkins, again, thinks that the desire for gain was the cause 

 of the crime, and names the thief directly as the Swede, Captain Lud- 

 vig Geanholm." The latter had, according to his own avowal, at a 

 burial in the Swedish Church, gone down into the vault, and when he 

 observed that the lid of Swedenboeg's coffin was loose, determined to 

 possess himself of the skull, and to sell it afterwards for a large sum 

 to one of Swedenboeg's numerous followers He lifted up the lid, took 

 out the cranium, and bore it away, wrapped in a handkerchief. — He 

 afterwards looked up Hawkins and offered the cranium for sale, but re- 

 ceived, to his disappointment, a decidedly negative answer. [Appen" 

 dix, No. 4). 



' Mary von Nolcken, née Roche, born 1744. Widow of Baron Gustaf Adam von 

 Nolcken, born 1733, who after having been Swedish Ambassador in London, 1763 — 92, liv- 

 ed as a private gentleman in Richmond, England, until his death in 1812. Baroness von 

 Nolcken died July 2nd, 1816, and was buried July 9th of the same year in the vault of the 

 Swedish Church in London, where her husband and a grandchild already had their resting- 

 places, and where her son. Chief Lieutenant G. H. von Nolcken, was also interred, 1839. 



^ Ludvig Granhol.m, born 1 769 As ensign in the Royal Swedish Navy he took part 

 in the battle of Svensksund, 1789, receiving the medal for bravery and the appointment of 

 lieutenant. In 1799 he resigned the lieutenancy and went into naval commerce. Lived after- 

 wards in straitened circumstances in London, where he died on the 28th of January and 

 was buried the 7th of February, 1819. The flowery address over the dead, customary in 

 those days, which was, however, not made by Pastor WAhlin, is cited in part by Palmer in 

 his MinneMad 20 (p. lo4). 



