BIB_ID
404392
Accession number
MA 4644.93
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1711 October 3.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.9 x 17.7 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 was written on board the yacht the Cleveland.
The letter is double-dated September 22 / October 3, 1711. September has been abbreviated as "7 ber."
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 was written on board the yacht the Cleveland.
The letter is double-dated September 22 / October 3, 1711. September has been abbreviated as "7 ber."
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 come to Brielle to set sail for England, and are waiting on the right wind to depart; writing that Lord Peregrine is well, that he "longs mightily to be with your Grace, & desires earnestly not to be divided from you, as long as God preserves you both. his Lordship wishes for nothing more than to frame his Course of Life by your exemple & good advices, & I hope in God, that, as far as he's able, he will answer your Grace's expectations"; mentioning that he has drawn on Sir Francis Child for an additional £50; asking if the Duke would send a servant to the customs house in London, so that they can bring in their luggage without harassment by the customs officials: "they fright us so much here, with the rude proceedings of the under officers, who wait on the River, that we cannot forbear praying your Grace to use your Credit that we be not exposed to their rudeness"; begging pardon for his boldness in asking this.
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