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of SwedenhoTg"s doctrine, and patron of the friends of this dontrine among the Swedes 

 in London. — Mr. Tulk was also a phrenologist and owned a large collection of skulls 

 of noted persons, and as the chief among these he also had Swedenborg's skull. 

 How it came into Mr. Tulk's possession I cannot say with certainty, but it was 

 related that a countryman who lived in London, whose name I have now forgot- 

 ten, who was attached to Swedenborg's doctrine, had removed the skull from 

 the coffin which is interred either, in the Swedish Church or in its churchyard, 

 in order to preserve it as a relic in his family, and that at this man's death and 

 the settlement of his encumbered estate, this treasure had been received by Mr. 

 Tulk. — I saw this cranium, remarkable in so many respects, but cannot now 

 recall anything concerning its form or phrenological characteristics. 



After the lapse of some years, when it had become known in Sweden that 

 Swedenborg's skull had been taken out of the grave and the coffin in this man- 

 ner, it gave rise to an unpleasant impression and was looked upon as a desecra- 

 tion by the adherents of the doctrine, and Countess S., being among those most 

 zealous and warm-hearted, and besides acquainted with and previously in cor- 

 respondence with Mr. Tulk, wrote moving letters expressing the wish that Swe- 

 denborg's skull be returned and deposited in the coffin from which it had been 

 removed. 



It was at this time that I and my aforementioned relative were in Lon- 

 don, and that he, as being acquainted with Countess S., received the commission 

 from Mr. Tulk to return the skull to its proper place. 



It is according to the narration of this my relative that I cite the following 

 events. — In passing by Holborn Street, — if I remember the name correctly — 

 an unknown gentleman came into the workshop of a plaster cast maker, Avhere 

 casts of the skull were to be taken, and seeing it lying on the table in the room 

 he began with interest to examine and phrenologically treat the prominent or- 

 .gans, and to the great amazement [of those present] remarked that the skull had be- 

 longed to a great man and a great thinker, enumerating all the attributes which 

 characterized our Seer. 



On the way to the Swedish church, which lies in the eastern quarter of 

 the cosmopolis, still another incident occurred. In passing through one of those 

 enormous pack-houses for tea and other East Indian goods, which are erected in 

 this tract and cover a large space, N. was stopped by a watchman there Avho 

 thought that contraband goods were being carried in the tied up handkerchief 

 which he brought with him in his hand, but when the man discovered a human 

 skull instead of what he had supposed, he drew back hastily and respectfully 

 and wished a »good night.» 



On arriving at the church, Swedenborg's skull was, the same evening, 

 in the presence of the Swedish precentor or some other official of the church — 

 I do not remember which — deposited in the same coffin, from which it had 

 been removed several years before, and the lid was screwed on. 



C. E. N. 



Spandelstorp, Va, 1870. 



