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Author and advertising executive with the Doyle Dane Bernbach agency and Brouillard Communications, a division of the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT), based in New York. Collection consists mainly of research files on various topics in corporate advertising and those prepared for Garbett's book, Corporate Advertising: the What, the Why, and the How (1981). Also contains miscellaneous files reflecting his work at Brouillard Communications, including advertisements for Textron, inc., and Eaton Corporation, as well as unsorted examples of corporate advertising taken from U.S. magazines and newspapers. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

Autograph document, signed. Certifies receipt of one pound ten shilling from Mr. John Reynall.

ALS. Recommends Dr. Richard North for a position in the Medical Department of the United States Army.

ALS. Writes to Commodore Jacob Jones regarding the naval asylum property and to W.P.C. Barton, from the Navy Department, regarding travel expenses.

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ALS which briefly refers to the Aborigines Protection Society, which Hodgkin founded in 1838. A holograph note in an unknown hand gives biographical details.

Documents, signed, relating to Thomas Hughes, his maternal grandmother, Joyce Morgan, his mother, Anne Hughes Samuel, her second husband, William Samuel, and the disposal of family property and goods in Llandilo, [Wales?]. There is also a page of printed material, Miscellaneous articles sold by Thomas Hughes, dispensing chemist.

ANS. Autograph signature.

Note, in an unknown hand, presents a gift from Pettigrew to the Countess of Blessington. Also in file is a 1933 newsprint article, "The frailities of Lady Blessington."

ALS. Writes that, in his opinion, yellow fever is not contagious, but rather "an epidemical fever, arising from some general cause". He draws upon observations of cases in Philadelphia and in the West Indies.