BIB_ID
404198
Accession number
MA 4644.11
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 April 5.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.4 x 17.6 cm
Notes
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated March 25 / April 5, 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.
The letter is double-dated March 25 / April 5, 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
Reporting on his quarterly expenses and assuring him that he has only spent what he deemed "...either necessary, or for the good & credit of my Lords. We allow our Selves a bottle of claret a day, which I hope yr. Grace will not think too much, specially the Biere being as Indifferent as it is in this country...As to the other liquors, besides the coffe or tea for breakfasts, they must be given when visits come, the custom being here to treat with coffe, biscuits & wine, one's friends that visit you. These little entertainments are the chief diversion of my young Lords; who never yet went into a coffe house, nor any other publick house;" relating that there are three princes whom they see regularly "...and they think themselves happy with that choice set of friends;" reporting that they continue to do well in their studies.
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