BIB_ID
404394
Accession number
MA 4644.94
Creator
Berard, Louis, active 18th century.
Display Date
1711 October 7.
Credit line
Purchased, 1989.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 18 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "His Grace The Duke of Leeds / at Lindsey house by old / Palace yard / England."
Docketed.
The letter was written on board the yacht the Cleveland.
The letter is double-dated September 26 / October 7, 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 26 / October 7, 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
Writing that they are still waiting for a fair wind; adding that "some vessels come yesterday from Yarmouth into this River, reported, as they sayled up by us to Rotterdam, that they had left the Swift frigat engaged with three or four Privateers; so that, thô we had neither yacht nor convoy, we would have Litle [sic] Incouragement to go over in a packetboat"; mentioning that Lord Peregrine is well, that he passes his time with shooting and fishing, and that he is kept company by "Mr. Trymmer" and "Captain Byron's son"; adding that Peregrine is "longing (with us all) for a speedy passage."
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