BIB_ID
404187
Accession number
MA 4644.6
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 February 4.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke / of Leeds at his house / in Holborn / England / London."
The letter is double-dated January 24, 1706 / February 4, 1707.
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.
The letter is double-dated January 24, 1706 / February 4, 1707.
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
Thanking him for his letters and for his confidence in him to arrange for their housing; saying that he is no longer in need of help from Lord Portland "unless it were in Respect of procuring us a settled place in the french church, which is very difficult to be gott without some powerful friend, however I shall endeavour by the means of some of my old acquaintances to overcome that difficulty;" reporting that the boys are in good health and expressing his gratitude for the opportunity he's been given as tutor.
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