BIB_ID
404368
Accession number
MA 4644.83
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1709 September 27.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.5 x 17 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace The Duke of Leeds / at his house in James street / Westminster / England / London." The words "Penny post" have been added directly under the address.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated September 16 / 27, 1709.
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 September 16 / 27, 1709.
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 they are still in Borculo at the castle of Count Stirum (see MA 4644.81), and though he has tried to get leave to depart, "tis not possible to deny what is askt with so much heartiness & kindness as the Lords staying has been"; writing that they have been treated with great hospitality: "My Lord Peregrine has had an occasion of trying it, having a Litle [sic] strained his foot when he was a shooting, for he has been attended, both by Counts & Countesses with all Imaginable Care. Thanks be to God, he has recovered his strength in few days, and would be able to walk without stick; but we oblige him to use it & to sit as much as we can. His Lordship has not been deprived of the usual sports, notwithstanding his Litle [sic] Mischance, having been brought in the Ladyes Coaches to coursing & shooting several times, having a whole side of the coach, with a stool & a cushion to hold up his foot. In short nothing is omitted for their diversion & entertainment"; promising to write from Utrecht soon with "what I hear that is material in the Publick news."
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