Fonds consists of correspondence, legal documents, sample mailings, mailing reports, research notes and background materials, photographs, as well as published materials produced by and about the company's clients and prospective clients. The records document Stephen Thomas Limited's activities as a direct response fundraising company from the 1970s to 2004. Records show the impact of changing technologies on direct response fundraising methods during this thirty-year period. Records also provide evidence of how clients used direct response marketing to communicate information about their missions and activities in order to raise funds. Files pertaining to mailings document how the company and its founder researched, produced, tracked and reported on fundraising campaigns. Client files provide information about the organizations and individuals with which Stephen Thomas Limited worked and events in which the company was involved. List Department files document how the company brokered mailing lists in 2001.
