BIB_ID
404360
Accession number
MA 4644.46
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1708 March 6.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.0 x 17.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace the Duke of Leeds / at his house in Holborn / England / London."
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated February 24 / March 6, 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 24 / March 6, 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
Thanking him for his "...kind assurances that you are pleased to be satisfyed with my weak, yet hearty endeavours to serve you in the persons of y'r Grand Sons. 'Tis a great happiness for me that they are accepted of, & 'tis the greatest Incouragement in y'e world to discharge better & better dayly the duty Incumbent to me. I hope y'r Grace will do me Justice to believe that I will never be remiss in it. Besides my conscience, the true Love I have for my dear Lords (& which they deserve so well) would never suffer me to neglect any thing that is for their advantage;" adding "The changes at court which y'r Grace Intimates are surprising, & give occasion to many speculations. The Gazett of this day mentions five more besides Secretary Harley; yet gives not the reason for their removal from their places."
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