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Verbatim notes made by Alexander Leighton of his interview of Bob C. in Smith's Cove

MS-13-86, Box 127, Folder 10
Item
April 26, 1946

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a transcript of a conversation that Alex Leighton had with a long-time resident and neighbour in Smiths Cove about the history of the families in the area.

Typed notes from "The Screening of Psychoneurotics in the Army: Technical Development of Tests"

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 4
Item
[1949?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a typed set of notes about "The Screening of Psychoneurotics in the Army: Technical Development of Tests," chapter 13 of The American Soldier, Volume IV.

Typed essay about birds around the Annapolis Basin

MS-13-86, Box 87, Folder 8
Item
[192-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a carbon copy of a long essay written by Alex Leighton as a teenager about his birding activities during the summer holidays in the Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia.

Three Irish houses : a memoir of the Troubles / Gertrude Leighton : [manuscript]

MS-13-86, Box 128, Folder 11
Item
[198-?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Gertrude Leighton's short memoir of the period (1920-1921) that she, Alex and their parents lived in Ireland and is centred around the three houses they lived in during that time: Clonallen, Sunrise and Springbrook.

The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — seventh annual report

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 2
Item
June 30, 1957

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Alexander Leighton's seventh annual report on the Stirling County study.

The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — second annual report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 16
Item
1952

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Alexander Leighton's second annual report on the Stirling County study.

The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — first annual report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 15
Item
1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Alexander Leighton's first annual report on the Stirling County study.

The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — eighth annual report

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 3
Item
June 30, 1958

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Alexander Leighton's eighth annual report on the Stirling County study.

The Editors interview Alexander H. Leighton / New England Journal of Human Services

MS-18-86, Box 82, Folder 13
Item
1981

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Stirling report #329 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — sixth annual report

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 1
Item
June 30, 1956

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Alexander Leighton's sixth annual report on the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #218 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — fifth annual report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 19
Item
June 30, 1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Alexander Leighton's fifth annual report on the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #150 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — third annual report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 17
Item
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Alexander Leighton's third annual report on the Stirling County study.

Stirling County Study Report #200 — Extracts and abstracts on "theories of culture and personality, organization-disorganization"

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 1
Item
June 14, 1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a mimeographed report removed from a three-ring binder.

Some details about the life of A.O. Leighton

MS13-86, Box 128, Folder 14
Item
2009

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a three-page description of Archibald Leighton, written by his son, Alex, for the 100th anniversary of the Irwin & Leighton Company.

Signed letter from Dwight Eisenhower thanking Mrs Leighton for her telegram of support

MS-13-86, Box 125, Folder 14
Item
19 July 1952

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a signed letter from Dwight Eisenhower sent in response to a telegram from Gertrude supporting his presidential candidacy.

Signed financial agreement between Alexander Leighton and Gertrude C.K. Leighton

Item
August 19, 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Seminar report on paper-and-pencil tests (non-projective) for screening psychoneurotics and psychotics / M.L. Kohn

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 2
Item
7 November 1949

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a handwritten report with a preface attributing a large portion of the material "from a preliminary report on psychological testing prepared by Dr. Frank Freeman of Cornell University."

"Selected for Exhibit" at the First International Photographic Exhibition

MS-13-86, Box 96, Folder 9, Item 4
Item
1938

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a medallion awarded to Alexander Leighton for his film Porpoise Oil's selection for screening at the First International Photographic Exhibition held at Grand Central Palace in New York, April 18-24, 1938.

Research plan / M.L. Kohn

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 1
Item

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a typed manuscript (lightly annotated and with a handwritten title page) outlining a preliminary research plan in response to the question: "Are there patterns of society and culture that predispose or produce neuroses and psychoses in the constituent members?"

Research design in the Stirling County study: a research program in social factors related to psychiatric health / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 13
Item

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a report to the Department of Health and Welfare regarding research methods of the Stirling County study.

Report no. 22 : A Japanese metropolitan daily : Tokyo Mainichi Shimbun

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 14
Item
1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a restricted report outlining the implications of how news is presented to the public in a popular Japanese newspaper, a key means of disseminating domestic propaganda.

Program with photographs for a childhood theatrical production put on by Gertrude and Jimmy Hutchins

MS-13-86, Box 128, Folder 20
Item
1924

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a handmade program for a Cold Spring Theatre production of "The Bad Lad," featuring Gertrude K. Leighton and James W. Hutchinson, presented Friday evening, April 5, 1924.

Porpoise oil / by Alexander H. Leighton, MD : [manuscript]

MS-13-86, Box 96, Folder 9, Item 1
Item
[after 1937]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a typed manuscript by Alexander Leighton describing his 1936 summer project filming a recreation of a traditional Digby County Mi'kmaq porpoise hunt and the subsequent rendering of the blubber into oil. The manuscript was commissioned by the magazine Movie Makers.

Our family story, written by Rosamond Cross

MS-13-86, Box 128, Folder 16
Item
1977

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a six-page family history written by Dorothea Leighton's older sister, Rosamond, for the purpose of giving Doreen and Ted Leighton and Jean Armstrong "a general idea of the family background."

Movie makers : magazine of the Amateur Cinema League, inc.

MS-13-86, Box 96, Folder 9, Item 2
Item
December 1937

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a copy of the magazine featuring an article about the ten best films of 1937 as chosen by the Movie Makers staff in which Alexander Leighton's "Porpoise Oil" received an honorable mention.

Monthly report on the Colorado River War Relocation Center for evacuated Japanese / by A.H. Leighton, Lt. (MC) USNR

Item
April 14, 1943

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a copt of a restricted report that Dorothea sent to his mother, Gertrude, at Alexander's request.

Memorial service program for Dorothea Farquar Cross

MS-13-86, Box 128, Folder 7
Item
1957

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a program for the memorial service of Dorothea Leighton's mother, which took place in Bryn Mawr, PA.

Letters from Bob Leighton to his sisters, Maggie, Katie and Ruth

MS-13-86, Box 104, Folder 9
Item
1911 - 1912

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains letters written to his sisters from Bob, Archie Leighton's older brother. The letters are written from Ruskin and Burbaby Lake, BC, where Bob was working for the W.C. Power Company clearing brush and splitting wood.

Letters from Bob Leighton to his father, John Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 104, Folder 8
Item
1911 - 1914

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains letters written to his "Guv'nor" from Bob, Archie Leighton's older brother. The letters are written from the northern coast of British Columbia and the Queen Charlotte Islands, where Bob moved from Vancouver to seek work and was variously employed clearing bush, fish packing and mining. In his letter of October 1, 1914, he writes of reaching Prince Rupert to find it "full of broken men, many of them actually starving."

Letter to William Hamilton regarding a house rental in Tramore

MS-13-86, Box 113, Folder 12
Item
5 February 1919

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a letter concerning a summer house rental, possibly for Gertrude and her children.

Letter to Mrs Leighton from Margaret Lee regarding the suitability of Wychwood School in Oxford, England, for Gertrude

MS-13-86, Box 124, Folder 13
Item
1932

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Letter to Janie from her aunt in Winthrop, Ontario

MS-13-86, Box 112, Folder 29
Item
2 August 1913

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Letter to her mother from Ethel Jean Hamilton

MS-13-86, Box 113, Folder 10
Item
26 June 1913

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a letter from Ettie written from the Nurses Home at the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia in which she makes reference to a surprise visit to Ireland by Gertrude and an anticipated visit from George to Philadelphia.

Letter to Gussy (Gertrude Hamilton) from her cousin Betty Link

MS-13-86, Box 113, Folder 17
Item
1933

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a letter sent to Gussie in Ireland from her cousin Betty in Trenton, New Jersey. Betty was the daughter of Ethel Jean (Ettie).

Letter to Gertrude Leighton ("Mouse") from Helen Turnbull

MS-13-86, Box 114, Folder 7
Item
October 7, 1933

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a letter to Gertrude from Alex's childhood friend Helen Turnbull, who writes during her shift at Mountainside maternity hospital.

Letter to Gertrude Leighton from Petronella

MS-13-86, Box 114, Folder 11
Item
1936

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Letter to Gertrude Leighton from her son, Alex, from "Big Black Bear Camp," Dish Lake

MS-13-86, Box 105, Folder 12
Item
[191-?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a letter from Alex describing his adventures in the woods filming wildlife, including a moose.

Letter to Gertrude Leighton from her son, Alex, 1946

MS-13-86, Box 110, Folder 7
Item
1946

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Letter to Gertrude Leighton from her sister Ethel Jean, 1911

MS-13-86, Box 107, Folder 14
Item
18 November 1911

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a letter from Ethel Jane Hamilton, who more commonly went by Ettie or Janie, to her sister Gertie, whom she addresses here as "Snouty." The letter is written from Archie and Gertie's house in Narbeth, PA, where Ettie was taking care of Alexander while Gertie went to see their aunt and uncle in Ontario, where their father was having an extended visit.

Letter to Gertrude Leighton from her nephew Will

MS-13-86, Box 108, Folder 9
Item
1935

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a letter written to Gertrude from her nephew Will, son of Archie's sister Katie.

Letter to Gertrude Leighton from her nephew Harry

MS-13-86, Box 108, Folder 11
Item
1958

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a letter and Christmas card written to Gertrude from her nephew Harry, the youngest son of her brother Angus.

Letter to Gertrude Leighton from her father (Faddie), 1909

MS-13-86, Box 107, Folder 3
Item
1909

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a letter written to Gertrude from father, William Hamilton, who was commonly known to family as "Faddie."

Letter to Gertrude Leighton from her daughter, Gertrude, 1938

MS-13-86, Box 105, Folder 5
Item
26 September 1938

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a letter written to her mother and father from Joggin Bridge, Nova Scotia.

Letter to Ettie from her sister Mina

MS-13-86, Box 112, Folder 26
Item
10 November 1911

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Letter to Ettie from her niece Daisy in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland

MS-13-86, Box 112, Folder 27
Item
16 January 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a letter from Daisy, who was the eldest daughter of Angus and Laura Hamilton. Daisy trained as a nurse and married a soldier from Newfoundland during the Second World War and subsequently spent most of her adult life in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland.

Letter to Ettie from Gerdie (?)