Asquith, Emma Alice Margaret, (1864-1945) Countess of Oxford and Asquith, socialite, author, and wit

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Alternative name(s):	Emma Alice Margaret Tennant (Maiden Name) Margot Asquith (Also known as)
Surname:	Asquith
Forenames:	Emma Alice Margaret
Gender:	Female
Date:	1864-1945
Title:	Countess of Oxford and Asquith
Biography:	ODNB link for Asquith, Emma Alice Margaret (1864-1945) nee Tennant, generally known as Margot, wife of 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P139412 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P918 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Emma Alice Margaret Asquith

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1876-1945: diaries, corresp and papers	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS. Eng. c.6665-6720, c.6729, d.3198-3218, d.3262-3319, e.3256-7, e.3280-92 passim	NRA 42917
2	1918-46: letters to Lady Aberconway	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 52550
3	1886-1929: corresp with Arthur Balfour	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD433	NRA 10026 Balfour See NRA(S)0012
4	1885-1919: corresp with Arthur James Balfour	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 49794 Passim
5	corresp with JE Burns	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 46282
6	corresp with Edward Carson	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D1507	NRA 17985 Carson
7	c1930-45: letters to Duff Cooper	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	DUFC	NRA 31392
8	19005-23: corresp with Lord D'Abernon	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 48928, 48935
9	1923-41: letters to Geoffrey Dawson	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Dawson	NRA 25619
10	1889-1934: letters (87) to Lady Desborough	Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies	D/ERV	NRA 26768
11	1917-39: letters (17) to AG Gardiner	London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections	Gardiner	NRA 25119
12	1885-1922: corresp with Mary Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 46238
13	1886-95: letters to WE Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 44498-520 passim
14	1911-20: letters (23) to Sir Edmund Gosse	Leeds University Library, Special Collections	Library Publications no 3	NRA 9840 Gosse
15	corresp with HA Gwynne	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Gwynne MSS	See Chris Cook, Sources in British political history 1900-1951 vol 5 1978
16	1889-1933: corresp with Lord Haldane	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.5906-6084 passim
17	1906-07: letters to Sir EW Hamilton	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 48614
18	1894-1917: letters to Sir William and Lewis Harcourt	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Harcourt	NRA 3679
19	1916-44: letters to John Maynard Keynes	Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre	JMK	NRA 36972
20	1918-45: letters to Elizabeth, Lady Lewis and her daughter Katherine	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Dep c 831, 840	NRA 40097
21	1913-37: letters to David Lloyd George	Parliamentary Archives	LG	NRA 15700
22	1912-16: corresp with Viscount Long	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 62404
23	1921-38: corresp with David Low	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	GEN MSS 96
24	1907-45: corresp with Gilbert Murray	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Gilbert Murray	NRA 16865
25	1913-35: letters to Lord Reading	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur E 238, F 118	NRA 20531 Isaacs
26	1883-1931: corresp with Lord Rosebery	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	10080-82, 10089, 10106-15, 10119, 10124-28, 10196 Passim
27	corresp with Herbert Samuel	Parliamentary Archives	SAM	NRA 11187
28	1906-28: corresp with Lord Selborne	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Selborne	NRA 17810
29	corresp with JA Spender	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 46388
30	1904-24: corresp with John St Loe Strachey (c100 items)	Parliamentary Archives	STR	NRA 19285
31	family corresp with Tennant family	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD510	NRA 20770
32	c1894-1929: letters to Sir Herbert and Lady Beerbohm Tree	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 62126
33	1927: letters to Viola Emmie Aida Tree	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 62126
34	1937-41: letters (10) to Virginia Woolf	Sussex University Library Special Collections	SxMs 18/Letters III	NRA 19479 Woolf

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Asquith, Herbert Henry, (1852-1928), 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, statesman	spouse		Family