BIB_ID
404197
Accession number
MA 4644.50
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 April 10.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 17.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke of Leeds / at his house in Wimbleton / England / London." "Holborn" has been crossed out and replaced by "Wimbleton."
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated March 30 / April 10, 1708.
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 30 / April 10, 1708.
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
Writing that the young Lords have just arrived in The Hague, where Prince Eugene arrived the day before and the Duke of Marlborough is expected that evening; mentioning that they have heard that the French fleet has returned to Dunkirk, "but in so pityful a condition that the hospitals are not sufficient to hold the souldiers & sea-men that are come back sick and half starved"; writing that many ships are missing, among them the Admiral, "which, they say, was separated from the rest by a Storm"; reporting that the boys are well, and that he has drawn on Sir Francis Child for another £100.
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