OLIPHANT: The Correspondence and Literary Manuscripts
of Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) from the National Library of Scotland

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MS.581 Single letter from autograph album of W F Watson (no 529, 2ff)
MS.741 Autograph album of G Buchanan (70ff)
MS.966 19th century celebrities - miscellaneous correspondence of Jane Welsh Carlyle,Thomas Chalmers, Laurence Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant, Sir Walter Scott etc

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MS.1774 Correspondence of Jane Welsh Carlyle (319ff)
MS.2636 Correspondence of John Stuart Blackie (360ff)

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MS.3925 19th century miscellany (348ff) including items by Thomas Carlyle, James Hogg, Elizabeth Montagu, Margaret Oliphant (ff162-165) and Robert Southey
MS.4855 Laurence Oliphant Mss

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MS.4856 Margaret Oliphant Literary Mss - Margaret Maitland
MS.4857 Margaret Oliphant Literary Mss - Zaidee
MS.4858 Margaret Oliphant Literary Mss - Zaidee

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MS.4859 Margaret Oliphant Literary Mss - The Quiet Heart
MS.4860 Margaret Oliphant Literary Mss - Articles for Blackwoods Magazine
MS.4939 Margaret Oliphant Literary Mss - Annals of a Publishing House: William Blackwood and his sons, chapters 1-12

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MS.7171 Autograph album of D Macdonald (155ff)
MS.7172 Autograph album
MS.7174 Correspondence of Sir Henry Craik (205ff)
MS.7175 Correspondence of Sir Henry Craik (195ff)

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MS.7178 Autograph album of Isabella Bishop (includes items by Arnold, Byron, Martineau, More and Oliphant)
MS.9752 19th century miscellany including letter of Margaret Oliphant to an actress and items by Crabbe, Gissing and others
MS.9754 section (vii) (f126-145) only. Correspondence with Helen Brodie, Mrs Craik and Robert and Margaret Story

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MS.9828 Correspondence of Donald Macleod, DD, editor of Good Words (95ff)
MS.10994 Letters of artists (258ff)
MS.23183 19th century miscellany (204ff) including letters by Oliphant

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MS.23193 Blackwoods correspondence
MS.23194 General correspondence

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MS.23195 Correspondence with her sons
MS.23196 Correspondence with her nieces
MS.23197 Correspondence of her nieces, 1889-93

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MS.23198 Correspondence of her nieces, 1894-97 and nd
MS.23199 Correspondence of her nieces (Madge to Denny), 1879-90
MS.23200 Correspondence of her nieces (Madge to Denny), 1891-93

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MS.23201 Correspondence of her nieces (Madge to Denny), 1894
MS.23202 Correspondence of her nieces (Madge to Denny), 1895 and nd
MS.23203 Correspondence of Madge and Denny

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MS.23204 Miscellaneous correspondence and papers
MS.23205 Margaret Oliphant Literary Mss - including parts of A Child’s History of Scotland and Jeanne d’Arc
MS.23206 Francis R Oliphant Literary Mss

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MS.23207 Francis R Oliphant Literary Mss
MS.23208 Francis R Oliphant Literary Mss
MS.23209 General correspondence - with her family and with William Blackwood, Francis Cornish, Anna Lady Ritchie and R H Story

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MS.23210 General correspondence
MS.23211 General correspondence and papers - including her first ever book contract (with Henry Colburn f.46) and excerpts from her Autobiography
MS.23212 Bank pass book, 1877-79

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MS.23213 Diary of Mrs Oliphant, 1883
MS.23214 Diary of Mrs Oliphant, 1887
MS.23215 Diary of Mrs Oliphant, 1888
MS.23216 Diary of Mrs Oliphant, 1896
MS.23217 Margaret Oliphant Literary Mss - Jerusalem: It’s History and Hope
MS.23218 Reminiscences of Mrs Oliphant - used for her Autobiography
MS.23219 Reminiscences of Mrs Oliphant - used for her Autobiography

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MS.30968 Blackwoods correspondence (f51-104 - letters of Mrs Oliphant)
MS.30973 Margaret Oliphant Literary Mss - Volume 2 of Annals of a Publishing House

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Miscellaneous correspondence with Blackwoods taken from MSS.4119-4725
Correspondence of Margaret, Francis Romano and Denny Oliphant

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Miscellaneous correspondence with Blackwoods taken from MSS.4119-4725
Correspondence of Margaret, Francis Romano and Denny Oliphant

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Miscellaneous correspondence with Blackwoods taken from MSS.4380-4449
Correspondence of Margaret, Francis Romano and Denny Oliphant, 1878-1883

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Miscellaneous correspondence with Blackwoods taken from MSS.4462-4523
Correspondence of Margaret, Francis Romano and Denny Oliphant, 1884-1888

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Miscellaneous correspondence with Blackwoods taken from MSS.4540-4643
Correspondence of Margaret, Francis Romano and Denny Oliphant, 1889-1896

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Miscellaneous correspondence with Blackwoods taken from MSS.4650-4725
Correspondence of Margaret, Francis Romano and Denny Oliphant, 1896-1900 & nd

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Acc.5772 Letter
Acc.7384 Article on Recent Books: French and English
Acc.7385 Margaret Oliphant Literary Mss - The Looker On
Acc.7828 Letter to Lang
Acc.8201 3 letters (one to Geraldine Jewsbury)
Acc.8807 3 letters to William Ibister
Acc.9047 Letter
Acc.9357 5 letters to Walter Besant
Acc.9811 4 letters
Acc.10329 Letter to Blackwood