BIB_ID
404250
Accession number
MA 4644.22
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 July 19.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.6 x 17.8 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 replaced with "At Wimbleton."
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated July 8 / 19, 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 8 / 19, 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
Reporting on the progress of the boys in their lessons; saying "I hope My Lord Danby will come to understand a Latin author without the help of a dictionary. I dare not say so much of his Brother: But they go on equally enough in their mathematicks, & I doubt not but they will understand them as far as it is necessary for persons of their quality. I intend shortly to put them on Geography & History, & to make use of Latin books to that end, that they may profit both ways;"
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