BIB_ID
404245
Accession number
MA 4644.21
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 July 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." London has been crossed through and "At Wimbleton" added.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated July 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 July 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
Apologizing for the delay in sending a summary of his accounts, wishing he could give the task of keeping track of his expenses to someone else but accepting that it is "incumbent to my place;" reporting that his prediction of their annual expenses at £800 is proving to be accurate even though the cost of boarding and housekeeping has been higher than he thought he would be but it is "... none more than they give in other places, Besides they are certainly better entertained & lodged then they could be any where else. In short they want hardly any thing they would have at home, & are as tenderly taken care of, as they would be by any housekeeper in England;" saying they heard he was to go to Bath and they hope the trip was a success; adding that the boys "...long to hear some thing from y'r Grace about what I had the honour to write concerning their hair & the learning of some musick by Lord Peregrine." (MA 4644.19)
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