BIB_ID
404289
Accession number
MA 4644.67
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 September 4.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.2 x 17.9 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." A note has been added beneath this address but it is illegible.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated August 24 / September 4, 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 August 24 / September 4, 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
Informing the Duke that Lady Bridget has received his letter and "will not fail to give you an account of every thing you desire to know by the next post"; telling him that he is making inquiries in Amsterdam about the prices of different sorts of velvet, and her Ladyship is similarly engaged; sending news of the siege of Lille; writing that, according to letters they have received, the counterscarp was supposed to have been stormed yesterday; relating an anecdote about Prince Eugene of Savoy receiving a poisoned letter; writing that he supposes the Duke will have heard the news about the King of Prussia's third marriage, to Sophia Louise, Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; telling him that "My Lady & the young Lords & Ladyes" are all well.
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