BIB_ID
404391
Accession number
MA 4644.92
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1711 September 29.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.9 x 17.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace The Duke of Leeds / at Lindsey house by old Palace / yard / London."
Docketed.
The letter is double-dated September 18 / 29, 1711.
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 18 / 29, 1711.
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 Lord Peregrine is well (his brother had died in a smallpox epidemic in August 1711) and that they are just waiting on the right wind to board a ship bound for England: "it is to be hoped it will at last turn to the right point for England; specially because it has made, these two days, all the points of the Compass, without staying two hours to any one"; adding that he will write again on Friday if they find that they are still in Rotterdam then.
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