BIB_ID
404327
Accession number
MA 4644.31
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 October 7.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.1 x 17.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke of Leeds / at his house in Holborne / England London." London has been crossed through.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated September 27 / October 7, 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 September 27 / October 7, 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 that he is traveling with the boys for a few days; saying "We are come to visit, for a weeks time, Leyden, Delft & some other towns, & to see what is worth seeing in them. I think necessary for my young Lords to take a little ramble every quarter of a year, as well to view the country, as to give them a little rest from their studies & exercises, that they may come again to them more heartily;" expressing concern for his health since they have not heard from him for "seven or eight weeks;" reporting the military and political news; saying "...the Duke of Marlborough came yesterday morning to the Hague, & is to go back to morrow for Brussels, where his Grace is to give the young Dutchess of Arschot for a wife to the Prince of Auvergne, being to serve her as a father on that occasion. Some say the Duke is to go afterwards to Vienna to confer with Prince Eugene upon the operations of the next campagne yet tho I have it from pretty good hands, I dare not affirm the truth of this last Journey. Ther's no more mention of the King of Sweden. the concerns of the Protestants are near setled in Silesia, there are already about 800 churches restored to them. The greatest difficulty is about the Jesuits, who can hardly be brought to surrender what they are once possest of. The Duke of Savoy is before Pignerol & Prince Eugene is besieging the Castle of Sosa, being already Master of the town."
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