BIB_ID
404340
Accession number
MA 4644.39
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 January 3.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.0 x 17.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke of Leeds / at his house / in Holborne / London."
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated December 23, 1707 / January 3, 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 December 23, 1707 / January 3, 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
Explaining that he has not sent a summary of his accounts due to a lingering headache; saying "We have had a foul, unhealthy weather these three-or-four last weeks which has made many people uneasy in these parts; but thanks be to God, no Body of our family has been affected with it but myself. My Dear Lords are & have been very well, & I am almost free from my little Indisposition, & hope not to put off my abstract farther than next Tuesday; wishing him a happy New Year.
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