BIB_ID
404372
Accession number
MA 4644.84
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1709 October 11.
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." The words "Wimbleton" and "penney post" have been added in an unknown hand.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated September 30 / October 11, 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 30 / October 11, 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
Telling the Duke that they have at last left Borculo and Count Stirum's castle, though they have very fond memories of the trip: "My Lords are so full of acknowledgment for the Count's kindess that they can't forbear speaking of it, with Every body"; promising that the boys will write their grandfather next week with all the details; sending news about the military campaigns underway; writing that the weather has been so bad for the last seven or eight days that it has hindered the progress of the troops besieging Mons; mentioning that a rumor has been confirmed: "What I have been told long ago, & whereof I have Intimated some thing to your Grace, is at present verified, that is, of a League between the kings of Poland, Dannemark & Prussia, wherein the Czar is included. To regulate matters, in consequence of it, the King of Prussia, & King Augustus (who has now assumed again the title of Poland) are to meet the Czar within few days. they are very happy that the King of Sweden has undone himself by his obstinacy"; adding that the snow has put a stop to the campaign on the Rhine; mentioning that the boys are somewhat behind in their work, but they will make it up and "they have got some thing by being acquainted with a family of quality & the best bred in all the Seven Provinces."
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