Catalogue of the papers of Emma Alice Margaret (Margot) Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, 1862-1945

University of Oxford, Bodleian Library

Elizabeth Turner

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Papers of Emma Alice Margaret (Margot) Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, 1862-1945

Abstract:
Correspondence and papers of Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, with correspondence and papers of other members of her family, 1862-1945

Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. c. 6665-6720, c. 6729; d. 3198-3218, d. 3262-3319; e. 3256-7, e. 3280-92; Photogr. c. 120-1, e. 11

Biographical History

Emma Alice Margaret (Margot) Asquith was born in 1864, the sixth daughter of Scots parents Emma and Charles Tennant. Her father 'an exceptionally enterprising and farseeing man of business' (DNB), became very wealthy, and developed a taste for collecting fine art and porcelain. He was a Member of Parliament from 1879 until 1886, and created a baronet in 1885. In 1853 he bought an estate in Peeblesshire, Scotland and enlarged the house The Glen, which was to become the family home in which Margot spent her youth. She received a very limited education from a governess, and recalled 'It was only because my father had a fine library and we were fond of reading that I learned anything before I was sixteen' (More Memories, p. 12) but she and her elder sister Laura were introduced to a large circle of politicians and members of London society who were entertained at The Glen.

Margot had many suitors and in 1894 she married H.H. Asquith, the Home Secretary, as his second wife. His first wife, mother of his five children, had died in 1891. Margot and H.H. Asquith had two children who survived infancy, Elizabeth and Anthony. In 1905 Asquith became Chancellor of the Exchequer and in 1908 Prime Minister. His wife's leading position in London Society is reflected in her correspondence.

From an early age Margot kept a diary and wrote stories and observations about her life. When her sister Laura died in 1886 she compiled an account of her early life, illness and death. In later life she went on to write her autobiography and many other books. She also contributed articles to magazines and newspapers.

Margot Asquith and family

Reproduced with the permission of the Bonham Carter Trust

Photograph of Margot Asquith with (clockwise) her grandchildren Priscilla Bibesco, Cressida Bonham Carter, Laura Bonham Carter and Mark Bonham Carter with (standing) Margot’s step daughter Lady Violet Bonham Carter. This undated photograph, from the papers of Lady Violet was taken at The Wharf in Sutton Courtenay, the home of Margot and H H Asquith.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in five main sections. A, diaries, 1876-1923 (available on microfilm in the Modern Papers Reading Room): B, general correspondence, 1876-1945, followed by family correspondence, 1884-1945: C, literary papers, 1879-1945: D, personal papers: E, correspondence and papers of other members of the family, 1862-1941. A few miscellaneous photographs were removed from the collection and stored separately as MS. Photogr. c. 78, fols. 55-75 (section F).

Acquisition

The papers were given (with MS. Photogr. c. 78, fols. 55-75) to the Bodleian Library by Mrs. Priscilla Hodgson, September 1998, except for the letters to Margot Asquith from H.H. Asquith (MSS. Eng. c. 6685-92) which were given by the Trustees of the late Lord Bonham Carter, July 1999. Photocopies from two albums owned by the Trustees were made in the Library, Feb. 2000 (MS. Eng. c. 6729).

A   Diaries and related papers of Margot Asquith, 1876-1923

A.1   Diaries, 1876-1923, 1941-3

Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. d. 3198-3218, d. 3262, d. 3264, e. 3256-7

The diaries kept between 1904 and 1913 are divided into political and family life, d. 3204, d. 3206, d. 3208 are political diaries and d. 3205, d. 3207, d. 3209 are family diaries.

Alternative Form Available: (Available on microfilm in the Modern Papers Reading Room.)

Oct. 1876
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3256
Extent: 25 leaves


1877
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3257
Extent: 177 leaves


Feb. 1878-May 1886
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3198
Extent: 232 leaves


Nov. 1892-Jan. 1895
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3199
Extent: ii + 192 leaves


1895
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3200
Extent: ii + 175 leaves


Jan. 1896-Jan. 1897
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3201
Extent: xiii + 201 leaves


Feb.-Dec. 1897
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3202
Extent: iii + 218 leaves


Jan. 1899-Jan. 1900
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3203
Extent: iv + 221 leaves

includes (fols. 1-13) a retrospect of 1898



Oct. 1904-Oct. 1906
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3204
Extent: i + 179 leaves


Jan. 1905-Jan. 1909
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3205
Extent: 186 leaves


Jan. 1907-Nov. 1909
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3206
Extent: 234 leaves


Jan. 1909-Apr. 1911
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3207
Extent: 149 leaves


Jan. 1910-Dec. 1911
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3208
Extent: vi + 244 leaves


Apr. 1911-Apr. 1913
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3209
Extent: iv + 292


Feb. 1912-Sept. 1914
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3210
Extent: 309 leaves


Oct. 1914-May 1915
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3211
Extent: 280 leaves


May-July 1915
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3212
Extent: iii + 153 leaves


July-Nov. 1915
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3213
Extent: 227 leaves


Dec. 1915-July 1916
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3214
Extent: ii + 534 pages


July 1916-Aug. 1917
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3215
Extent: ii + 263 leaves


Sept. 1917-Nov. 1918
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3216
Extent: i + 261 leaves


Nov. 1918-Sept. 1919
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3217
Extent: i + 261 leaves


Apr. 1922-Dec. 1923
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3218
Extent: i + 255 leaves


Typed transcript of the diary for Nov. 1892-Jan. 1895
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3262
Extent: 129 leaves
Note: The original diary is MS. Eng. d. 3199 above


Engagement diary, 1941-3
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3264
Extent: 116 leaves

A.2   Papers relating to the diaries, 1876-1924, n.d.

Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. c. 6665-8, d. 3263

Miscellaneous papers relating to the diaries


1876-99
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3263
Extent: 153 leaves

Includes



1900-14
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6665
Extent: 204 leaves


1915-20
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6666
Extent: 166 leaves


Newspaper cuttings, 1908-16
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6667
Extent: 159 leaves


Newspaper cuttings, 1917-24, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6668
Extent: 123 leaves

B   General and family correspondence of Margot Asquith, 1876-1945

B.1   General correspondence of Margot Asquith, 1876-1945

B.1.1   Letters mainly to Margot Asquith, 1876-1945

Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. c. 6669-82, d. 3265-77, e. 3280-3

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically, with some letters from her

Adams - Baldwin
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6669
Extent: 115 leaves


Balfour - Bibesco
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6670
Extent: 243 leaves


Bigge ( A.J.)
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6671
Extent: 165 leaves


Birkett - Brocklehurst
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3265
Extent: 116 leaves


Brodrick - Byles
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6672
Extent: 162 leaves


Cabinet - Chaplin
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6673
Extent: 157 leaves


Charteris (Evan)
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3280
Extent: 151 leaves


Cheyne - Curzon
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6674
Extent: 240 leaves


D'Abernon - Dixon
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3266
Extent: 136 leaves


Dixon (W.M.)
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3267
Extent: 173 leaves


Donaldson - Evans
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3268
Extent: 60 leaves


Farquhar - Froude
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6675
Extent: 157 leaves


Gardiner - Godley
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3269
Extent: 84 leaves


Godley (J.A.)
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3270
Extent: 255 leaves


Gollancz - Gwynne
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6676
Extent: 184 leaves


Haas - Harrisson
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3271
Extent: 154 leaves


Heffer - Jowett
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6677
Extent: 183 leaves


Keith - Lytton
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6678
Extent: 205 leaves


Macassey - Maxwell
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6679
Extent: 246 leaves


Meiklejohn - Monro-Ferguson
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3272
Extent: 128 leaves


Montagu - Morgan
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3273
Extent: 138 leaves


Morley (J.)
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3281
Extent: 154 leaves


Muir - Pringle
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6680
Extent: 244 leaves


Quiller-Couch - Russell
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6681
Extent: 169 leaves


Sackville-West - Strutt
Shelfmark: MS. c. 6682
Extent: 204 leaves


Symonds (J.A.)
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3274
Extent: 273 leaves


Talbot - Welby
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3275
Extent: 76 leaves


Wemyss (Anne), 1 1885-93
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3282
Extent: 136 leaves


Wemyss (Anne), 1894-6, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3283
Extent: 226 leaves


Wemyss - Zaharoff
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3276
Extent: 150 leaves


Unidentified letters, 1903-43, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3277
Extent: 145 leaves

B.1.2   Letters mainly from Margot Asquith, 1885-1931

Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. d. 3278-82, e. 3284

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically

Cust (H.J.C.)
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3278
Extent: 212 leaves

Includes



Falk (O.T.)
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3279
Extent: 233 leaves


Godley (J.A.), 1902-16
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3280
Extent: 177 leaves


Godley (J.A.), 1917-31, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3284
Extent: 192 leaves


Lyttelton (G.W.S.), 1886-9
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3281
Extent: 193 leaves


Lyttelton (G.W.S.), 1890-1907, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3282
Extent: 178 leaves

B.1.3   Miscellaneous correspondence

Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. c. 6683-4, c. 6729, d. 3283-5


Condolence letters, May 1911
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3283
Extent: 200 leaves
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically

Written to Margot Asquith on the death of her sister, Charlotte, Lady Ribblesdale



Condolence letters, as MS. Eng. d. 3283 above, May 1911
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3284
Extent: 173 leaves


Letters, mainly congratulations after the Paisley by-election, 1920
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6683
Extent: 141 leaves
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically, Askwith - Hutchinson


Letters as MS. Eng. c. 6683 above, 1920
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6684
Extent: 129 leaves
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically, Inverarity - Wood


Letters to Margot Asquith concerning H.H. Asquith's last illness 1927-9
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3285
Extent: 144 leaves
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically

With (fols. 20-134) condolences on his death



Photocopies of letters to Margot Asquith, 1887-1944
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6729
Extent: 105 leaves
Acquisition: Made in the Library from two albums of Margot Asquith, retained by the Trustees of the late Lord Bonham-Carter

B.2   Family correspondence of Margot Asquith, 1884-1945

B.2.1   Letters, mainly to Margot Asquith, from her mother and father, 1884-1904, n.d.

Shelfmarks: MS. Eng. d. 3286


Letters from her mother and father, Sir Charles and Lady Tennant 1884-1904, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3286
Extent: 112 leaves

B.2.2   Letters to Margot Asquith from her husband, H.H. Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 1891-1927

Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. c. 6685-92

Acquisition: Given by the Trustees of the late Lord Bonham Carter, 1999

1891
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6685
Extent: 187 leaves


1892
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6682
Extent: 184 leaves


1893-4
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6687
Extent: 186 leaves


1895-9
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6688
Extent: 266 leaves


1900-4
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6689
Extent: 270 leaves


1905-11
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6690
Extent: 278 leaves


1912-16
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6691
Extent: 235 leaves


1917-27, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6692
Extent: 160 leaves

Includes (fols. 144-53) a letter from Margot Asquith, 1936, enclosing two letters from Asquith to her, 1892, 1895


B.2.3   Letters to Margot Asquith from her daughter Princess Elizabeth Bibesco, 1901-41

Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. c. 6693-4, d. 3287


1901-6
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3287
Extent: 155 leaves


1907-11
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6693
Extent: 138 leaves


1912-41
Shelfmark: MS. Eng.c. 6694
Extent: 145 leaves

B.2.4   Letters to Margot Asquith from her son Anthony (Puffin) Asquith, 1904-40, n.d.

Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. c. 6695-6, d. 3288


1904-12
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6695
Extent: 152 leaves


1913-14
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3288
Extent: 131 leaves


1915-40, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng.c. 6696
Extent: 200 leaves

B.2.5   Letters to Margot Asquith from other members of her family, 1880-1945

Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. c. 6697, d. 3289-90

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically, with a few letters from her

Asquith
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3289
Extent: 184 leaves


Bibesco - Duff
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3290
Extent: 190 leaves

Includes (fols. 28-38) an exercise book in Violet Bonham Carter's hand and annotated "Baby. Margot from Violet, 2 Feb. 1899''



Elliot - Wilson
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6697
Extent: 195 leaves

C   Literary papers of Margot Asquith, 1879-1945


Correspondence and papers relating to books, articles and a lecture tour, 1915-27
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6698
Extent: 112 leaves

Includes



Miscellaneous dated manuscripts, 1879-1945
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6699
Extent: 344 leaves

Includes



Exercise book
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3291
Extent: 51 leaves

Contains



Part of an exercise book, containing another version of Chapter I of 'Anne', 1885-7
Shelfmark: MS. Eng.d. 3292
Extent: 21 leaves


Margot's account of her sister Laura's early life to 1881, [late 1880's]
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3293
Extent: 86 leaves

In manuscript and typescript



Volume of writings by Margot, 1886-9
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3285
Extent: 146 leaves;
Binding: green calf binding, and bookplate of Margot Tennant

Includes



Margot's account of Laura's death, 1886 1888
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3294
Extent: i + 26 leaves

Volume of typescript, written at Bournemouth



'Visit to Hawarden', 1889
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3295
Extent: 37 leaves

Volume of typescript, written at Glen and Hawarden by Margot Asquith



'A Little Journey to Egypt in 1891'
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3296
Extent: 206 leaves

Draft and (fols. 146-206) typescript, published as part I of Places and Persons (London, 1925)



Manuscript and typescript drafts, many incomplete, 1892-1941, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3297
Extent: 341 leaves

Includes



'Love Letters' 1893
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3298
Extent: 195 leaves

Manuscript and typescript drafts, written by Margot Asquith, and published in Pearson's Magazine Nov. 1917



'American Impressions', 1922
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6700
Extent: 301 leaves

Typescript drafts of 12 articles by Margot Asquith offered for publication by the Bell Syndicate in the USA, 1922, and included in Places and Persons 1925 with (fols. 96-8) related newscuttings



Drafts and articles, by Margot, for the London Magazine 1923-4
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3299
Extent: 313 leaves

Some of the printed articles are marked up for inclusion in Places and Persons 1925



H.H. Asquith's last illness and death, 1927-9
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3300
Extent: 172 leaves

Notes by Margot Asquith



Off the Record (London, 1943)
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6701
Extent: 253 leaves

Margot's typescript, with manuscript alterations, (fols. 242-53) galley proofs



Incomplete typescript and manuscript drafts, 1917-28, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3301
Extent: 180 leaves

Includes



Manuscript and typescript drafts of chapters, many incomplete, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6702
Extent: 175 leaves

including



Manuscript and typescript drafts of an untitled story, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6703
Extent: 131 leaves

About John Isherwood and his wife Grace



Draft articles addressed to Sydney Carroll of the Daily Sketch, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3302
Extent: 171 leaves

fols. 2-75 were in envelopes identical to the one at fol. 1



Draft articles written for various named newspapers and magazines, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3303
Extent: 124 leaves

(fols. 123-4) galley proof of an article for the Lady's Pictorial annotated in Margot's hand 'A talk with Mrs. Asquith on personal service', c.1914-18



Drafts, mainly incomplete, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6704
Extent: 218 leaves


Drafts, mainly incomplete, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6705
Extent: 230 leaves


Drafts, mainly incomplete, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6706
Extent: 243 leaves


Drafts, mainly incomplete, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6707
Extent: 280 leaves


Drafts, mainly incomplete, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6708
Extent: 187 leaves

(fols. 111-89) miscellaneous notes


D   Personal papers of Margot Asquith, 1872-1943, 1965, n.d.


Commonplace book, 1884-92
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3304
Extent: 147 leaves 50-147 blank
Binding: Green calf, gilt, lettered 'L' and 28 October 1886, cream watered silk end-papers


Loose papers removed from MS. Eng. d. 3304 above, 1883-1900
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3305
Extent: 42 leaves

(fols. 18-42) Margot's account of the birth and death of her baby, Aug. 1900



Notebook, 1885
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3286
Extent: 174 leaves 67-174 blank

Containing notes on the horses Margot rode to hounds, 1879-99



Volume, 1886-91
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3287
Extent: 196 leaves
Binding: Green calf

Inscribed, 'Margot Tennant Summer of 1886. Books she has read' containing date read, author, title, and her notes on each one



Volume as MS. Eng. e. 3287 above, 1894
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3288
Extent: 294 leaves, 22-294 blank
Binding: Green calf, bookplate of Margot Tennant


Small notebook, compiled by Margot, 1893-1905
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3289
Extent: 80 leaves
Binding: Brown calf with maroon watered silk end-papers

Contains a few notes and sayings about her



Notebook 1914-38
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3306
Extent: 40 leaves

Contains Margot's Christmas present lists



Album 1918-19
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6709
Extent: 225 leaves, 17-225 blank
Binding: White vellum, lettered 'Margot' on the spine

Contains a telegram from King George V and a few newscuttings



Loose papers removed from MS. Eng. c. 6709 above
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6710
Extent: 81 leaves

Includes



Notebook containing lists of Margot's lunch and dinner guests, 1934-40
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3307
Extent: 94 leaves, 61-94 blank


Papers
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6711
Extent: 291 leaves

Includes



Printed papers, 1880-1965, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6712
Extent: 172 leaves

Includes



Newscuttings, 1894-1943
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6713
Extent: 157 leaves

(fols. 76-152) reviews of some of Margot's books, 1915-43



Photographs, mainly of the Asquith and Tennant families 1884-1932
Shelfmark: MS. Photogr. c. 120
Extent: 88 leaves


Photograph album belonging to Margot, 1899
Shelfmark: MS. Photogr. e. 11
Extent: 7 leaves

'Souvenir of a Saturday at the zoo'



Photographs used in the Autobiography of Margot Asquith, 2 vols. (London, [1920-2])
Shelfmark: MS. Photogr. c. 121
Extent: 42 leaves

E   Correspondence and papers of other members of the family, 1862-1941

E.1   Correspondence and papers of Katherine Lucy Graham-Smith, née Tennant 1862-1941

Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. d. 3308-10


Miscellaneous letters and papers of Lucy Graham- Smith, 1862-1941
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3308
Extent: 18 leaves


Letters from Laura Tennant to A.G.C. Liddell, 1884-5
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3309
Extent: 93 leaves, 28-93 blank

copied out by Lucy Graham-Smith, 1887



'The Story of a Tramp's Dog' n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3310
Extent: 89 leaves
Binding: White vellum, decorated end papers

Volume containing a manuscript, written for and dedicated to Lucy Graham-Smith by Eki?


E.2   Correspondence and papers of Laura Lyttelton, née Tennant 1876-86

Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. d. 3311-13, e. 3290-1


Address book
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3290
Extent: 152 leaves
Binding: Green calf, gilt

(fols. 14v-152) diary, Jan.-Oct. 1876



Diary, Nov. 1876-July 1882
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3311
Extent: 497 pages
Binding: Black calf, lettered 'L.O.T'


Diary, Dec. 1882-Feb. 1885
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3312
Extent: 239 leaves, 89v-239 blank;
Binding: Black calf, lettered 'Laura'


Notebook, 1883
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3291
Extent: 98 leaves
Binding: Lettered 'Laura' on front cover
bookplate of Laura Tennant

Contains poetry and pen and ink sketches



Letters to Laura, 1877-83
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3313
Extent: 120 leaves

(fols. 32-120) miscellaneous papers, 1875-86, n.d., including (fols. 116-19) two copies of a condolence letter to Alfred Lyttelton from W.E. Gladstone, 1886


E.3   Correspondence and papers of H.H. Asquith 1864-1927,

Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. c. 6714-17, d. 3314-15


Letters to H.H. Asquith from his wife Margot, 1891-1927, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3314
Extent: 80 leaves


Letters to H.H. Asquith from and relating to other members of his family, 1891-1926
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6714
Extent: 207 leaves
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically


General correspondence, 1864-1927
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6715
Extent: 180 leaves
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically, Alexandra - Horner


General correspondence, 1864-1927
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6716
Extent: 164 leaves
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically, Isaacs - Williamson

(fols 163-4) a letter to the first Mrs. Asquith from Edward Grey, 1890



Condolence letters to H.H. Asquith and Margot on the death of their first child, 1895
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3315
Extent: 76 leaves
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically


Correspondence with publishers, 1921-7
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6717
Extent: 95 leaves
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically

(fols. 77-95) miscellaneous papers


E.4   Correspondence and papers of Princess Elizabeth Bibesco, née Asquith 1908-41

Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. c. 6718-19, d. 3316, e. 3292


Italian diary, 1908
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 3292
Extent: 32 leaves, 16-32 blank

Kept while on holiday with her half-sister Violet



Correspondence, 1911-39
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6718
Extent: 170 leaves



Miscellaneous manuscripts and typescripts by Princess Bibesco, 1937, n.d.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6719
Extent: 224 leaves


'Sayings of sense to guide and help you', 1910-14
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3316
Extent: 39 leaves
Binding: Calf, lettered on upper cover 'Amor...Versi'

Volume in Margot's hand and given to Elizabeth, 1914


E.5   Correspondence and papers, of Anthony Asquith, 1906-40

Shelfmarks: MSS. Eng. c. 6720, d. 3317-18


Letters to Anthony (Puffin) Asquith, 1906-40
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3317
Extent: 158 leaves



Letters to Anthony, 1904-32
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3318
Extent: 82 leaves

Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically


Papers of Anthony Asquith, 1911-38
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6720
Extent: 176 leaves

Includes examination papers and school reports, with (fols. 112-75) miscellaneous papers


E.6   Correspondence and papers relating to Raymond Asquith 1893-1916

Shelfmarks: MS. Eng. d. 3319


Correspondence and papers relating to the death of Raymond Asquith, 1916
Extent: 64 leaves

Includes


F   Miscellaneous photographs


Miscellaneous photographs
Shelfmark: MS. Photogr. c. 78
Extent: 21 leaves

Box of miscellaneous photographs, fols. 55-75 forming part of the Margot Asquith collection.



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