Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Mrs M.R. Coker of Bicester House, Oxfordshire.
'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.
The volumes were bequeathed to the Library by Mrs M.R. Coker, 1978.
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