The Charles Dickens Letters Project
Period:
1861-1870
Theme(s):
legal matters
To FREDERIC OUVRY,1 [1865-70]
Envelope only.
Text from facsimile in Noble Numismatics online catalogue, 2015.
Address: Private | Frederic Ouvry Esquire | 66 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Date: Handwriting and signature confirm 1865-70.
- 1. Frederic Ouvry (1814-81), CD's solicitor from 1856. Son of Peter Aimé Ouvry, of the Ordnance Office, descendant of an old French family; nephew of John Payne Collier. Partner in Robinson, King, and Ouvry, 13 Tokenhouse Yard, 1837; partner in Farrer, Ouvry, with his brothers-in-law F. W. and W. J. Farrer, 66 Lincoln's Inn Fields (Miss Coutts's solicitors), 1855-81. Fellow of Society of Antiquaries 1848; Treasurer 1854; President 1876. A well-known book collector.