Charlotte Esther Coxe was the wife of Henry Octavius Coxe (1811-81), Bodley's Librarian. Details of Henry Octavius Coxe are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Drawings, with a few photographs, of English baptismal fonts, chiefly by Charlotte Esther Coxe. The sketches, many of which are coloured, are signed and are all mounted on stout paper and kept in portfolios.

The drawings were presented to the Library by Rev. Hilgrove Coxe in 1914.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. VI, nos. 36676-96.

Drawing

Coxe | Charlotte Esther | fl. 1845-95