BIB_ID
404357
Accession number
MA 4644.78
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 November 30.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.9 x 17.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace The Duke of Leeds / at his house in James Street / Westminster / England / London." Lines have been drawn through the street address and the word "Wimbleton" added below.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated November 19 / 30, 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 November 19 / 30, 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 "Captain Monck with the Catherine yacht is at Last arrived to this side", but that unfortunately the captain has orders from the Admiralty to carry over the Duke of Manchester instead of Lady Bridget; writing that all parties are very apologetic about this situation: "the Captain himself wonders at it, & My Lord Manchester told me that was it not for the Publick Caracter he's invested with, he had rather to stay behind & to Let My Lady go"; explaining that, because of this turn of events and because of Lady Bridget's concern for the Duke's health and her eagerness to return to England, they have come to Rotterdam, where "My Lady is resolved Rather to make use of any other Conveniency that offers it self, then to be Longer far from your Grace"; reporting that there is good news from Brussels, where the Duke of Marlborough was able to cross over the Scheldt without any opposition "by the favour of a thick fogg, & the Cowardice of the french troops"; writing that he would give him more details if he were not in a hurry to finish the letter and were he not sure that the "publick news will give a full account of Every thing"; promising to send news of the siege of Lille in future letters.
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