BIB_ID
404172
Accession number
MA 4644.2
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1706 December 20.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 17.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke / of Leeds at his house / in Holborn / England / London."
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fortieth Anniversary Fund from the Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, 1989.
Summary
Reporting that they have reached Rotterdam "after a tedious voyage of nineteen days...;" adding that they intend to continue on to the Hague, then to Amsterdam and then to Utrecht where he hopes to receive word on where they should settle; adding that he will be writing to the mother of the boys and that he will also write to their father when he is advised to do so; adding, in a postscript, that letters sent to him should be directed to Mr. Vandewater, Bookseller at Utrecht. .
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