BIB_ID
404230
Accession number
MA 4644.17
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 June 13.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke / of Leeds at his house / in Holborn / England." Holborn and London have been crossed through and replaced with "At Wimbleton."
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated June 2 / 13, 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 June 2 / 13, 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
Explaining that they are in Amsterdam "...in order to receive the Sacrament at the English church...There's a strong report here of a peace & that My Lord Marleborough is to be at the Hague speedily to communicate to the States General the proposals made to him, from the french generals: they say farther that in the mean while, all acts of hostility are suspended betwixt the two armies in flanders. The speculatives ground their belief of a peace upon another report, that the Emperour & the Duke of Savoy are treating with the french king. I dare not warrant the truth of these reports; but some people speak of them very confidently;" reporting that the boys are in good health.
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