BIB_ID
404196
Accession number
MA 4644.10
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 March 22.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.5 x 18.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke / of Leeds at his house / in xx / England."
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated March 11, 1706 / March 22, 1707.
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.
The letter is double-dated March 11, 1706 / March 22, 1707.
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
Concerning the timeliness of the news he is able to report from Utrecht; saying that the "...news are stale when they come to us, and it would be in vain to write from hence what is commonly known in England...yet I suppose I may venture what I heard Saturday last from two Princes of the king of Prussia's family, who came to pay a visit to my young Lords. That that king has very lately been in danger of his Life by a sudden stoppage (the fatal consequence of an asthma his Majesty has been long troubled with) which put, for some houres, his Court in fear of loosing him; but by letting him bloud & giving him a dose of some chymical powder, he was happily recovered & is out of danger for the present;" saying he hopes to hear soon that he is "...altogether free from yr. late pain betwixt yr shoulders. Till then we can't be quiet; knowing too well how precious yr. Graces Life ought to be to yr. Noble family, not to be highly concerned whenever we hear that it is in any danger."
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