BIB_ID
404171
Accession number
MA 4644.1
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1706 December 15.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.1 x 15.8 cm
Notes
Docketed.
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 education of the two boys in this collection of letters.
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 education of the two boys in this collection of letters.
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fortieth Anniversary Fund from the Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, 1989.
Summary
Explaining that in the fortnight since they left for Holland they are still in England due to the roughness of the seas; complimenting the young Lords on how "unweariedly" they "bear with the fatigues of the sea. Neither of them has been above half an hour sick hitherto, and they have eaten their meat all along as heartily as they ever did at land;" adding that the boys in good health.
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