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Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds
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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

D'Arcy, Carl

File contains correspondence with or about Carl D'Arcy. Also includes a grant application peer review for the Saskatchewan Health Research Board.

DeVinney, Leland C.

File contains correspondence with or about Leland C. DeVinney. Also contains "A proposal for research in the development of concepts and methods for 'comparative social science'."

Ford Foundation proposal

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."

Goldfarb, Allan

File contains correspondence with or about Allan Goldfarb. Also contains a psychiatric study outline, study progress reports and budget outlines, and grant applications.

Grant no. MH 12892-02

File contains an application for and correspondence regarding grant no. MH 12892-02, for research grant "Psychiatric Disorder and Sociocultural Environment" under the direction of Alexander Leighton. The grant included salaries, administrative costs, and field office expenses in Nova Scotia and New York.

Grant no. MH 12892-05

File contains correspondence and memoranda regarding grant no. MH 12892-05 for the psychiatric disorder and socio-cultural environment study. Also contains budget documents, datasets, and application forms.

Grant no. MH 12892-06

File contains correspondence and memoranda regarding grant No. MH 12892-06 for the psychiatric disorder and socio-cultural environment study. Also includes completed application and budget forms.

Ottawa file

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."

Proposals 1964 - 1969

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.