'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.
Scrapbooks compiled by Mrs M.R. Coker of Bicester House, Oxfordshire
This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Reference
- GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. d. 1022-1061
- Dates of Creation
- 1913-78
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 40 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Mrs M.R. Coker of Bicester House, Oxfordshire.
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
The volumes were bequeathed to the Library by Mrs M.R. Coker, 1978.
Note
Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
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