BIB_ID
404218
Accession number
MA 4644.53
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 May 15.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 21.9 x 17.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace The Duke of Leeds / at his house / Wimbleton / England." The original address was given as "at his house in Holborn": the words "his" and "in Holborn" have been crossed out, along with "London", at the bottom of the address.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated May 4 / 15, 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 May 4 / 15, 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
Commenting that there is not much new to tell, though "I hope when the Campagne is opened we shall have Matter enough"; referring to a letter from Peregrine to his grandfather, relating that Lord Hinchinbrook (possibly Edward Richard Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke) had recently passed through Utrecht on his way to Italy to "Improve his Manners"; writing that they hear that Hinchingbrooke went no further than Venice, where he had a falling out with his tutor; adding that Hinchingbrooke has instead traveled north to Hanover on his own, and his tutor is returning to England by another way; relaying that Hinchingbrooke is determined to travel by sea "& will follow the example of his Grandfather in order to become a great Admiral as he was" (possibly referring to John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester, who was not an admiral but had distinguished himself in the navy); commenting that "My Lord Peregrine can make some reflexions concerning the Italian & the Sea Breeding which would run more Lively from his pen then from Mine"; telling the Duke that he has drawn on Sir Francis Child for £100; promising more letters from the boys soon.
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