Response to letter by Mrs. Taylor Scott Hardin, as part of campaign to get women to smoke openly in public, encouraging the recipeint's club to help furthering the movement and to hear views on the subject.

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Museum of Public Relations

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Response to letter by Mrs. Taylor Scott Hardin, as part of campaign to get women to smoke openly in public, encouraging the recipeint's club to help furthering the movement and to hear views on the subject.

Category

Public Relations

Acquisition

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Shelley and Barry Spector

Made/Created

Notes

Date made: Apr. 25, 1929

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Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

correspondence

Location

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Second black binder Edward Bernays

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Photograph of original at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Carty Ranck, letter recipient, sent typewritten letter back on The Queens County Evening News stationery, with note, "My Dear Mrs. Hardin, I was greatly interested in your last letter about women smoking. Bully for the women! I agree with you that it is a foolish taboo and I am glad to see that women like you are helping to smash it. This double standard business is all tommyrot anyhow and you will be interested to know that I am writing a play at present along these very lines. Have I ever met you at any of the Authors' League luncheons by the way? Your name sounds very familiar. If I haven't, I wish you would invite me over some time because your point of view interests me very much. I am enclosing a clipping from our newspaper af April 9th. As you will see, I used your letter and meant to send you the clipping before but overlooked it. With all good wishes, and thanking you for the clipping from the Boston Globe, which was most interesting. I am, Most cordially yours, Carty Ranck, Editor

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February 14, 2020

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September 5, 2025