BIB_ID
404384
Accession number
MA 4644.89
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1710 February 25.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23 x 18 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 14, 1709 / February 25, 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 14, 1709 / February 25, 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
Informing the Duke that they have had to leave the house where they had been staying for the past three years because of "the Brutishness of our Land Lord" (who "Friday Last... fell into a Mad fit"), but that they have found new quarters; assuring him that there will be no interruption in the boys' studies; sending news about the peace negotiations underway; writing that the French representatives have been named and they are the "Mareschal d'Uxelles, the Abbot of Polignac, who has been ambassador in Poland, & Monsieur Amelot formerly ambassador to the Suiss Cantons"; adding that they will be traveling to Breda, where they will meet with "the Pensionary of Amsterdam, named Vanderdooce [possibly Bruno van der Dussen]" to discuss terms; mentioning that people have suspicions about the sincerity of the French; passing along rumors about the King of Sweden, including that he has had to have his leg cut off; adding that "tis certain that the Turks will not brake with the Christians upon his account, & that the Moscovites have taken by storm the town of Elbing in the Royal Prussia, where there was a Swedish garrison."
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