BIB_ID
404354
Accession number
MA 4644.43
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 February 14.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, 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 / England London."
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated February 3, 1707 / February 14, 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 February 3, 1707 / February 14, 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
Reporting on the continuing good progress of the boys; saying "My Lord Peregrine specially does strictly attend his Drawing, according to y'r Graces commands, & as his Lordship delights in it, 'tis no doubt but he will greatly Improve. We have had hitherto in these parts a very moist unwholsom weather, till within these four or five days that the frost has begun & is like to last. Many people have been troubled with Rheums & other distempers during the former; yet my dear Lords, I thank God, have kept their Health."
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