John T. Hotchkiss was a bookstore manager and salesman for J.K. Gill & Co., a bookstore and stationer in Portland, Oregon. Collection includes scrapbook items, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and leaflets regarding Oregon authors and poets, J. K. Gill's "Poet's Corner," the Oregon Writer's League and poet Mary Carol Davies. Also included are newspaper clippings regarding J. K. Gill and various Oregon writers.

The J.K. Gill Company was one of the largest retail and wholesale concerns of its kind on the Pacific Coast. Collection consists of printed ephemera, including advertisements for Christmas books; typescript carbon copies of statements of business for fiscal years ending May 1914, March 1920, and March 1922; and manuscript invoices.