BIB_ID
404381
Accession number
MA 4644.88
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1710 February 11.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23 x 17.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace The Duke of Leeds / at Lindsey house by the old / Palace yard / England / London." The words "penney post" have been added in an unknown hand.
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated February 1, 1709 / February 11, 1710.
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 1, 1709 / February 11, 1710.
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
Writing that there is little foreign news to convey, but that he doesn't want to lose the opportunity to assure the Duke of "My dear Lords health, & constant Indeavours of Improving"; mentioning that since the diplomatic discussions currently underway mean that Louis XIV's proposals are sent to London to be presented to Queen Anne, he suspects that the Duke will know more than they do about whether peace is likely; commenting that it is strange that the Dauphin is never mentioned as a participant in the private councils the King is holding, which otherwise include the Duke of Burgundy (the Dauphin's son), the "Duke d'Albe, ambassador of Spain" and the Marquis de Torcy; suggesting an explanation for this: "the Dauphin being good natured & the Duke of Burgundy of a contrary temper & a Haughty spirit, more measures are to be taken with him than with his father; & then that the Dauphin loving his pleasure & ease doth not care to medle [sic] much with such affairs as these, besides that, may be, he does not care to take the part of one of his sons against the other. Whereas the Duke of Burgundy, who, as they say, hates his Brother Philip, & has often complained that his Grand father would ruin him to setle [sic] his Brother, is the Chief promoter of Peace & sticks at nothing to have it concluded. time will shew whether we guess right."
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