BIB_ID
404201
Accession number
MA 4644.12
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 April 12.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.4 x 17.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke / of Leeds at his house / at Wimbledon / England." It was originally addressed to the Duke of Leeds at his house in Holborn but Holborn and London have been crossed through and "at Wimbledon" written beneath it.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated April 1 / 12, 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 April 1 / 12, 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
Hoping that the Duke has received his accounting of expenses and reiterating how careful he has been with spending; informing him that he plans to take the boys to Amsterdam for the Easter holiday since they did not get to spend much time there as they passed through on their way to Utrecht; saying "My Dear Lords deserve some diversion & relaxation after their continual application to their books & exercises for three-months together;" asking if he would meet Maret de la Rive, "a Gentleman, who has marryed a relation of mine & is Intrusted with all my Little Concerns in England...he has told me formerly that he was beholden to yr. Grace for many favours When Lord President of the Councel; & desires me by all the Letters I receive from him, to send him one of recommendation, that may procure him admittance into yr Graces presence."
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