BIB_ID
404386
Accession number
MA 4644.90
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1710 March 4.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.9 x 18.1 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 21, 1709 / March 4, 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 21, 1709 / March 4, 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
Telling the Duke that "My Dear Lords & some of their best friends are going to drink your Graces good health upon your birth day, praying to God with all our hearts that you may Injoy it many years longer, both for your own sake & upon the account of your whole Illustrious family"; writing that they expect similar celebrations will be held in England; mentioning that they are getting settled in their new quarters (see MA 4644.89); sending news about the peace negotiations underway, including the information that, though the French had requested the discussions be held in Breda, the Dutch insisted instead on "Gertrudenberg [Geertruidenberg], which is a Litle [sic] hole Incompassed with the Maese"; mentioning that two of the French representativse, the Marquis d'Huxelles and the Abbot of Polignac, are expected to arrive the next day in Moordiek, from where they will be brought to Geertruidenberg; commenting that it is unlikely that the proposals the French negotiators bring "will be relished, thô many people fancy the peace is very near."
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