Correspondence, 1969-2015, undated

Correspondence contains personal and professional letters, including letters between Middleton and his family and friends, as well as literary correspondence relating to the publication of Middleton's poetry, awards, speaking engagements, and teaching. Of note are extensive correspondence with poets Catherine Savage Brosman, Fred Chappell, Dick Davis, X. J. Kennedy, Donald E. Stanford, and Clive Wilmer, as well as R.L. Barth (publisher), David Bovenizer (scholar and writer), George Core (editor), Al Cowan (friend and colleague), Marilyn Gibson (former teacher), David and Anna Middleton (parents), Francine Kerne Middleton (wife), Lewis P. Simpson (writer and editor), Nancy Schoenberger (writer), and the families of John Finlay and T. Sturge Moore.