'Celebration books', scrapbooks compiled by Mrs Coker, containing letters, drawings, photographs, postcards, invitations, menus, programmes and other souvenirs of her activities and friends, with an index volume for 1913-1950. The volumes relate to Mrs Coker's life at Downe House School, Kent, 1913-1914, and then partly at Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, 1913-1920, Sutton Valence, Kent, 1920-1923, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, 1926-1930, and Bicester, 1930-1978, and partly abroad in various countries.
Dates
- Creation: 1913-1978
Extent
4.20 Linear metres (42 boxes)
Language of Materials
- English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Eng. misc. d. 1022, fols. 1-2].
Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS. Eng. misc. d. 1022-1061
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 13616
Abstract
Scrapbooks compiled by Margot Coker of Bicester House, Oxfordshire
Biographical / Historical
Margaret 'Margot' Rosalys Mirrlees of Great Shelford, Cambridgshire, married Major Lewis Aubrey Coker (only surviving son of Colonel and Mrs Coker of Bicester House, Oxfordshire), 30 June 1920. She lived at Bicester House, Oxfordshire from 1930 until her death in 1978.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The volumes were bequeathed to the Library by Mrs M.R. Coker, 1978.
- Title
- Scrapbooks compiled by Margot Coker of Bicester House, Oxfordshire
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Original catalogue by Emily Tarrant; EAD 2022 by C. McIlwaine
- Date
- EAD version 2022
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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