Includes letters to and from Mole. A significant proportion of the correspondence by quantity is with the poet Brian Waltham (1925-2002).

The general correspondence includes letters from Jill Balcon, Elizabeth Bartlett, Patricia Beer, Tim Blanning, Edward Brathwaite, Alan Brownjohn, Charles Causley, R. T. Rundle Clark, David Constantine, Hilary Corke, John Cotton, Patric Dickinson, Freda Downie, Nick Drake, Douglas Dunn, John Fuller, Seamus Heaney, A. L. Hendricks, Michael Horovitz, Dan Jacobson, Jenny Joseph, Jan Mark, Paul Matthews, Norman Nicholson, Bernard O’Donoghue, Paul O’Prey, Lawrence Sail, Arthur Sale, Mary Jo Salter, Vernon Scannell, David Scott, E. J. Scovell, Peter Scupham, George and Cecilia Scurfield, Louis Simpson, Peter Sive, Martin Stokes, Edward Storey, Simon Stuart, George Szirtes, James Hall Thomson, Anthony Thwaite, Bruce Turner, Phillip Vine and Chris Wiseman.

A discrete file of correspondence (now in three folders), relating chiefly to editors', publishers' and fellow writers’ responses to Mole's work, includes letters and notes from Dannie Abse, Fleur Adcock, Martin Amis, Sandra Anstey, Julian Barnes, Marjorie Barton, Martin Bax, Patricia Beer, Paul Binding, Roy Blackman, Sydney Bolt, Jacky Breach, Kathleen Arden Brown, Alan Brownjohn, Wenona E. Bryan, Piers Burnett, Eleanor-Mary Cadell, David Carver, Harry Chambers, Stewart Conn, M. C. Constable, Simon Courtauld, William Cookson, John Cotton, C. B. Cox, Natalie Cramer, Hilary Davies, Patric Dickinson, Freda Downie, Lindsay Duguid, Polly Dunnett, Judith Eagle, D. J. Enright, Gavin Ewart, Josephine Falk, Peter Forbes, John Fuller, Roger Garfitt, Malcolm Gerratt, John Gross, Ian Hamilton, George Hartley, Norman Hidden, Douglas Hill, Rosemary Hill, Danny Hochberg, Alan Hollinghurst, Harry Hopper, Olive Howell, Peter Hoy, Chris Hudson, Peter Jay, Alan Jenkins, Roland John, B. S. Johnson, Julia Jones, Jenny Joseph, P. J. Kavanagh, Kate Kellaway, Biddy Kloos, Trevor Kneale, Thomas Lask, Osyth Leeston, Roy Lewis, Eddie Linden, John Lucas, George MacBeth, Roger McGough, Sophia Macindoe, Michael Mackmin, Trevor McMahon, Christopher Macy, Wes Magee, Derek Mahon, Derwent May, Richard Mayne, Robert Minhinnick, Adrian Mitchell, Deborah Mitchell, John Mole, Blake Morrison, Ruth Morse, Andrew Motion, Mary Nielsen, Charles Osborne, Bridget O’Toole, Helen Owen, Helen Paniguian, Derek Parker, Bill Parkinson, Christopher Parry, William Peskett, Ann Phillips, Neil Powell, Craig Raine, Jane Robinson, Alan Ross, Pamela Clunies-Ross, Pamela Royds, Carol Rumens, Lawrence Sail, Arthur Sale, Alison Samuel, Michael Schmidt, Alison Scotter, Howard Sergeant, Jon Silkin, Edward Lucie-Smith, Juliet Standing, Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, Bernard Stone, John Sundell, George Szirtes, Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu, Alan Tarling, Elizabeth Thomas, Anthony Thwaite, Anne Tibble, Claire Tomalin, Lynne Truss, Clarissa Upchurch, Eileen Warren, Simon Watson, Kay F. Weston, Anthony Whittome, Gillian Wilce, Hugo Williams, Kemble Williams, Merryn Williams and Christopher Wiseman; a few of the letters are addressed jointly to John and Mary Mole.