BIB_ID
404330
Accession number
MA 4644.33
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1707 November 15
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 17.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke of Leeds / at his house in Holborn / England." Holborn has been crossed through and "Wimbledon" added.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated November 4 / 15, 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 November 4 / 15, 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 the boys continue to do well with their studies and that they have added tennis to their regimen of exercise; saying he does not yet have sufficient intelligence to report on the "state of war resolved upon in these countryes for next year" but will do so when he knows more; adding "The Execution of a treaty about the Protestant Churches of Silesia goes on but slowly & would be like to be suspended by the intrigues of the Jesuits, if the King of Sweden was not at hand to do the Silesians justice."
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