BIB_ID
404234
Accession number
MA 4644.18
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 June 21.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.7 x 17.8 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 10 / 21, 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 10 / 21, 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
Expressing their happiness at hear the news of "...y'r Graces health, whereof we had had no account form any body these four or five weeks past;" reporting on the good health of the boys and informing him that he will be sending his quarterly accounts.
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