BIB_ID
404281
Accession number
MA 4644.63
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 July 31.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.2 x 17.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace The Duke of Leeds / Recommended to Mr. Robothom / at the Post Office / England / London."
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated July 20 / 31, 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 July 20 / 31, 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
Writing that he had hoped to send the Duke more information about the situation in Flanders and Germany, but "I have been taken up from morning till seven of the clock in the afternoon, in waiting on My Lady [Bridget Osborne], & Interpreting for her Ladyship both with Shop keepers & visiting Ladyes, & My head is at present so out of order, that I can hardly remember anything that I have either read or heard about news"; mentioning that one of the effects of the victory at the battle of Oudenarde is that the allies have "put the Countrys of Artois & of Picardy under contribution, as far as Paris, as they say"; telling him that he has written to a "Mr. Clifford" to find out whether Clifford has had any orders from Sir Francis Child regarding further credit: "I expect his answer Impatiently having Litle Money Left."
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