BIB_ID
404194
Accession number
MA 4644.4
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 January 14.
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 3, 1706 / January 14, 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 3, 1706 / January 14, 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
Expressing his concern that they have not heard from him since they left England five weeks earlier; informing that "they are in the best house in Utrecht; better lodged & as well entertained as any other pension and yet not dearer. There are none but German & french in the house, except a Scotch Captain who's a very civil & sober gentleman & speaks very good french, so that they are free from English & Irish, of whom all other pensions have three or four; relating the daily schedule for the boys which includes Riding, Latin, Mathematics, Dancing, Fencing, Lute & Harsichord and telling him that the Masters for these subjects come five days a week leaving Thursday and Sunday as days of rest; adding that he hopes to be their Master for French and Geography; praising the diligence of the boys, their good health and their intention to write to him and to their mother.
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