BIB_ID
192945
Accession number
MA 4644.1-94
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1706-1711.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
94 item (185 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
Louis Berard was hired by the Duke of Leeds to tutor his grandsons William Henry Osborne, Earl of Danby (1690-1711) and Peregrine Hyde Osborne, Viscount Dunblane (1691-1731). He provided weekly accounts of the military and political news of the region as well as reports on the education of the two boys in this collection of letters.
Written from Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Utrecht and the Hague.
Most of the letters are double-dated, reflecting the use of the Julian calendar in England versus the Gregorian calendar on the Continent, as well as different conventions about the official beginning of a new year.
Written from Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Utrecht and the Hague.
Most of the letters are double-dated, reflecting the use of the Julian calendar in England versus the Gregorian calendar on the Continent, as well as different conventions about the official beginning of a new year.
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fortieth Anniversary Fund from the Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, 1989.
Summary
Being a collection of ninety-four autograph letters signed from Louis Berard to the Duke of Leeds providing weekly reports on the military and political news in the region and on the education of his grandsons while they are in The Netherlands from 1706-1711. Letters in the collection have been described individually in ninety-four separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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