Archives Catalogue

MS-13-86, Box 63, Folder 12
File
1972 - 1973

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence regarding grant applications and progress reports. Also contains an application titled "A proposal for research into the measurement of health in populations."

Harvard School of Public Health department development

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 7
File
1966 - 1971

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memoranda, reports, and proposals related to the development of the Behavioral Science Department of the Harvard School of Public Health.

Grafton Trout's preliminary analysis of fertility among Yoruba women

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 7
File
1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains data coding information, a research proposal for Trout's study, and a compilation of socioeconomic data relating to rural Yoruba women from the 1961 Cornell-Aro study.

Fryer, E. R.

MS-13-86, Box 41, Folder 2
File
1951 - 1952

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about E. R. Fryer. Also contains a proposal for "A proposed training program for point four workers in the American southwest."

Ford Foundation proposal

MS-13-86, Box 63, Folder 14
File
1963 - 1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence regarding grants from the Ford Foundation for collaborative study between Harvard and the University of Ibadan. Also includes "Proposal for a program of research in mental health and mental illness."

Fejos, Paul

MS-13-86, Box 40, Folder 19
File
1943 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Paul Fejos. Also includes a proposal for "The value of photography in social research," and a program for the Conference on Medicine and Anthropology.

Eisenberg, Leon

MS-13-86, Box 40, Folder 1
File
1967 - 1975

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Leon Eisenberg. Also contains a draft psychology project proposal.

Dominion-Provincial Health grants, 1950s

MS-13-86, Box 63, Folder 7
File
1950 - 1957

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains communications regarding grant applications and project proposals. Also contains grant budget breakdowns and research proposals for the Stirling County Study.

Digby County public school study

MS-13-86, Box 67, Folder 16
File
1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a proposal draft for a study of the public school population of Digby County.

Course proposals and outlines

MS-13-86, Box 70, Folder 16
File
1941 - 1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains proposals and outlines for new psychology and psychiatry courses.

Correspondence regarding Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 25
File
1976 - 1984

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence between Alexander Leighton and several different hospitals, clinics, universities, research institutions, and psychiatric associations regarding the development of psychiatric epidemiology programming.

Correspondence for the Foreign Morale Analysis Division

MS-13-86, Box 98, Folder 16
File
1944 - 1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence, memoranda, study plans, and analytical reports related to the Foreign Morale Analysis Division. Documents specifically relate to psychological study of Japanese civilians and prisoners of war.

Cornell-Digby Development Project

MS-13-86, Box 67, Folder 12
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains two drafts of a report or proposal for the Cornell-Digby Development Project.

Cornell program in social anthropology

MS-13-86, Box 64, Folder 9
File
1947 - 1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a pamphlet on Cornell University's studies in Culture and Applied Sciences. Also includes proposals and progress reports on the program. Also contains correspondence about and teaching materials for the program.

Committee on resettlement study

MS-13-86, Box 98, Folder 12
File
1946 - 1947

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence, memoranda, and meeting plans and minutes for sessions of the resettlement study committee. Also contains a proposal for the resettlement study.

Canadian health applications

MS-13-86, Box 63, Folder 4
File
1978 - 1982

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains grant applications and project proposals for Canadian health grants for mental health projects.

An introduction to psychiatric epidemiology video-related materials

MS-13-86, Box 95, Folder 5
File
1988 - 1991

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains materials related to a video on psychiatric epidemiology, including an outline/proposal, peer evaluation forms, charts and figures, and discussion.

Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

MS-13-86
Fonds
1837-2020, predominant 1904-2008

Fonds contains records created and collected primarily by Alexander H. Leighton, with some by Jane Leighton Murphy. Documents span from Leighton's studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins univerities, through his government employment in World War II, and his teaching career at Cornell, Dalhousie, and Harvard. The majority of records are related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women, both based in Nigeria, and the Stirling County Study, based in Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, reports, photographs and slides, medical and academic records, method and guidebooks, reviews, offprints and publications, teaching and course materials, and surveys and interview transcripts.

A sous-fonds contains records documenting the migration of Alexander Leighton's parents from Ireland to the United States and their subsequent life in Philadelphia. The sous-fonds contains extensive correspondence between extended family members over the course of a century, as well as photographs, diaries, wills, family trees, memoirs, and Alexander Leighton's personal correspondence.

Murphy, Jane Leighton

Affiliated studies using the 1961 and 1963 study data

Subseries
1960 - 1973

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries consists of affiliated studies by other authors that used the data from the 1961 Cornell-Aro and 1963 role of women studies. Contains some articles written by staff members of the 1961 and 1963 studies.

1969 proposal to NIMH

MS-13-86, Box 97, Folder 10
File
1969

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a grant application for "Psychiatric Disorder and Social Environment."

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