This collection contains papers of Miles C. Horton, Jr., a resident of Newport (Giles County), Virginia. The collection focuses primarily on Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Included are several letters from Dillard, relating to books, protozoa, science and nature, and mutual acquaintances. Also included is an inscribed copy of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; the Summer 1988 issue of The Yale Review, containing an essay, "Making Contact," by Dillard; and articles about the author. The collection also contains material relating to poet and critic Randall Jarrell (1914-1965), including a 1965 letter written by a student of Jarrell's just weeks before the writer's death and commenting on his decline; and the Spring 1961 issue of Analects, entirely devoted to Jarrell and his work. Also in the collection are a few drawings by Dr. Stuart Bamforth while conducting research at the laboratory on Salt Pond Mountain (Mountain Lake Biological Station) and two of Horton's illustrated name cards.