'Celebration books', scrapbooks compiled by Mrs Coker, containing letters, drawings, photographs, postcards, invitations, menus, programmes and other souvenirs of her activities and friends, 1913-78, with an index volume for 1913-50. The volumes relate to Mrs Coker's life at Downe House School, Kent, 1913-14, and then partly at Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, 1913-20, Sutton Valence, Kent, 1920-3, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, 1926-30, and Bicester, 1930-78, and partly abroad in various countries.
Dates
- 1913-78
Extent
40 shelfmarks
Language of Materials
English
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MSS. Eng. misc. d. 1022].
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Full range of shelfmarks:
MSS. Eng. misc. d. 1022-1061
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 13616
Biographical / Historical
Mrs M.R. Coker of Bicester House, Oxfordshire.
Other Finding Aids
A full description is available in the Library.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The volumes were bequeathed to the Library by Mrs M.R. Coker, 1978.
- Title
- Scrapbooks compiled by Mrs M.R. Coker of Bicester House, Oxfordshire
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Emily Tarrant
- Language of description
- English
Repository Details
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