BIB_ID
404282
Accession number
MA 4644.64
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 August 7.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23 x 18.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace The Duke of Leeds / Recommended to Mr. Robothom / at the Post office in Lombard Street / England / London." Another name has been added to the address, but it is illegible.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated July 27 / August 7, 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 27 / August 7, 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, the boys, their mother and their two sisters arrived in Amsterdam the previous Saturday, and that they have been busy seeing the sights: "We have been all so taken up with seeing cabinets full of rarities from all the world, & other places worth the Observation of strangers, that her Ladyship has had no time to write herself, & I have only so much as will suffice to assure your Grace of the welfare of all the part of your Noble family which is here"; adding that Lady Bridget will depart the next day for a short trip to North Holland; informing him that it appears unlikely that anything will happen with the armies in Flanders until "the heavy Canon be come from Brussels to the camp, whither Prince Eugene has undertaken to Bring it"; writing that he has drawn on Sir Francis Child for £100.
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