OLIPHANT:

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

Contents of Reels

REEL 1

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

REEL 2A

MS.1774:Correspondence of Jane Welsh Carlyle (319ff)

REEL 2B

MS.2636:Correspondence of John Stuart Blackie (360ff)

REEL 3

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

REEL 4

MS.4856:Margaret Oliphant Literary Mss - Margaret Maitland

MS.4857:Margaret Oliphant Literary Mss - Zaidee

MS.4858:Margaret Oliphant Literary Mss - Zaidee

REEL 5

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

REEL 6

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)

REEL 7

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

REEL 8

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

REEL 9

MS.23193:Blackwoods correspondence

MS.23194:General correspondence

REEL 10

MS.23195:Correspondence with her sons

MS.23196:Correspondence with her nieces

MS.23197:Correspondence of her nieces, 1889-93

REEL 11

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

REEL 12

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

REEL 13

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

REEL 14

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

REEL 15

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

REEL 16

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

REEL 17

MS.30968:Blackwoods correspondence (f51-104 - letters of Mrs Oliphant)

MS.30973:Margaret Oliphant Literary Mss - Volume 2 of Annals of a Publishing :House

REEL 18

Miscellaneous correspondence with Blackwoods taken from MSS.4119-4213

Correspondence of Margaret, Francis Romano and Denny Oliphant, 1851-1866

REEL 18A

Miscellaneous correspondence with Blackwoods taken from MSS.4225-4295

Correspondence of Margaret, Francis Romano and Denny Oliphant, 1867-1872

REEL 19

Miscellaneous correspondence with Blackwoods taken from MSS.4309-4366

Correspondence of Margaret, Francis Romano and Denny Oliphant, 1873-1877

REEL 19A

Miscellaneous correspondence with Blackwoods taken from MSS.4380-4449

Correspondence of Margaret, Francis Romano and Denny Oliphant, 1878-1883

REEL 19B

Miscellaneous correspondence with Blackwoods taken from MSS.4462-4523

Correspondence of Margaret, Francis Romano and Denny Oliphant, 1884-1888

REEL 19C

Miscellaneous correspondence with Blackwoods taken from MSS.4540-4643

Correspondence of Margaret, Francis Romano and Denny Oliphant, 1889-1896

REEL 19D

Miscellaneous correspondence with Blackwoods taken from MSS.4650-4725

Correspondence of Margaret, Francis Romano and Denny Oliphant, 1896-1900 & nd

REEL 20

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

Acc.11119:Letter to Mrs Armitage

Acc.11703:7 letters to Dr Charteris (1 by Oliphant)

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