Call Number:

SCRC 132

Repository:

Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center

Extent:

0.01 linear feet (1 folder)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

[Description and date of item], Richard Middleton Letters to Henry Savage, SCRC 132, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Date:

1907-1911 (inclusive)

Creator:

Middleton, Richard, 1882-1911

Form:

Correspondence

Abstract:

Richard Barham Middleton was born in Middlesex in 1882 and he attended British schools before working as a clerk for the Royal Assurance Exchange Corp. After seven years Middleton resigned to pursue a bohemian literary career. Middleton ended his own life at age 29 during a visit to Brussels. Five of his works were published posthumously.

A series of 27 typed copies of letters to his friend Henry Savage from this short-lived early 20th century British poet. The letters describe some of Middleton's literary publishing efforts, as well as documenting his mood swings during the last four years of his life. There are several letters sent from Brussels, site of Middleton's suicide. The letters are annotated by John Gawsworth, the editor of several Middleton works, and there is also a Gawsworth holograph manuscript which appears to be a draftof a proposed publication of Middleton's letters to Savage.