File contains correspondence with or about F. C. "Court" Purdy. Also contains newspaper clippings and a job description for Director of Community Services at the Annapolis Mental Health Centre.
File contains materials related to the establishment of a course on clinical quantitative analysis, including conversation summaries, course outlines, correspondence, proposals, diagnostic handbook notes, and information on Harvard's Department of Behavioral Sciences.
File contains applications for and correspondence regarding several grants, numbered MH 12892-06, MH-08180-02S1, MH 08180-01, and MH 02307-01. Also contains application feedback, project plans, and appendices.
File contains "Instructional development in the behavioral sciences: a preliminary proposal," a list of teaching questions, lecture notes, and correspondence regarding the above.
File consists of offer letters and correspondences between Alexander Leighton and various academic and research institutions regarding professional teaching and research positions.
File contains schedule pamphlets for symposiums and correspondence regarding symposium presentations. Also includes a script for a presentation titled "The importance of priorities in the mental health field."
File contains documents related to the Behavioral Sciences Panel of the President's Science Advisory Committee. Documents include meeting minutes, panel member lists, correspondence, and lecture scripts.
File contains correspondence with or about James C. Powell and L. G. Payson. Also includes correspondence with universities and hospitals and medical license certificates.
File contains Leighton's manuscript for an article about making his film "Porpoise Oil"; correspondence with the editors of Movie Makers; a copy of the Movie Makers issue in which his film was given an honorable mention; and a medallion awarded for his film being chosen for screening at the First International Photographic Exhibition.
File consists of correspondence between Jane Murphy and Sarah Anne Robinson of the University of Florida regarding preliminary and final reports on the 1963 study on the role of women.
File contains correspondence with or about John Pearson. Also contains a manuscript for "Sensations, their nature and origin: brief statement of the findings of the Dartmouth Eye Institute."
File contains three manuscripts: "Price of peace," "Our peace," and "An immediate task for an institute of ethnic democracy," and related correspondence.
File contains correspondence regarding grant applications and proposals. Also contains completed applications and a proposal for "A program for community development in Digby County, Nova Scotia."
File contains notes on data processing and coding, medical findings, and psychiatric social data. Also includes correspondence between Dorothea Leighton and Alice Longaker regarding coding process and classification procedures.
File contains research notes on the history of schools and public education in Nigeria. Comparisons are made between British and Nigerian degree systems. File also includes correspondence between researchers and the Nigerian Consulate in New York regarding Nigerian schooling and the place of women therein.
Files contains documents relating to the film "Mental Health Research in Nigeria" that was filmed during the 1961 Cornell-Aro study. Included are memos discussing the film's production and release, notes on filming scenes, a brochure for Cornell's program in social psychiatry, film production and narration notes, comments from researchers, and letters between researchers, librarians, and contacts in the Nigerian government. File also includes a publication called "African film bibliography 1965" by the Committee of Fine Arts and the Humanities of the African Studies Association.