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.
File contains correspondence between Alex and Dorothea, some of it written when Alex was on sabbatical in Paris, and much of it discussing their relationship and divorce. Many of the letters are undated and have been filed together in the order in which they were found.
File contains letters and emails between Alex and Jane and Russell Poe, who was the grandson of Ethel Jean Hamilton Link. Russell lived for some years with Alex and Dot and was raised alongside Doreen and Ted.
File includes letters or cards from Alex's cousin Carrie Magowan, Doreen and Joe, Nancy Weller, John and Madeline Macdonald, Laura Strang (Daisy's daughter), and Lee and Sue White-Hamilton.
File contains a series of letters between Arthur Gale and Alexander Leighton regarding his film "Porpoise Oil." The correspondence includes an announcement of its inclusion as an Honorable Mention by Movie Makers staff in the selection of the Ten Best Non-theatrical Films of 1937, as well as letters about an article Gale commissioned from Leighton about the making of his film. There is also correspondence from 1941 with James Moore at The Amateur Cinema League regarding Alexander Leighton's possible submission of his film about Navajo life, "Work for your Own," for a contest in the Special Class.
File contains letters written between friends and colleagues Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton, beginning during the Second World War and continuing until 1951.
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.
File contains letters from Gertie to Archie written primarily from Waterford and from the nearby seaside town of Tramore, where she rented a house during the spring and summer of 1910 for herself and Alexander, aged 18 months old, when they returned to Ireland for an extended visit after her recovery from typhoid fever.
File contains letters from Gertie to Archie written on board the RMS Mauretania enroute to Ireland, and then from Waterford, where she and Alexander stayed during the summer of 1912.
File contains letters from Gertie to Archie written from the SS Mauretania and from Ireland, where she and Alexander stayed with family during the summer of 1913, joined by Archie in September.
File contains letters from Gertie to Archie written from Ireland, where she and Alexander intended to spend the summer. Gertrude's pregnancy disallowed her from sailing back the United States in August 1914; they stayed until the following March, returning to New York on an American ship.
File contains four letters from Gertie to Archie written from Islandmagee, County Antrim, where she and Alexander lived briefly following the birth of her daughter, Gertrude, in Belfast on 9 December 1914. Gertrude's pregnancy had disallowed her from sailing back the United States the previous August, and the family returned to New York on an American ship in March 1915.
File contains a letter from Gertie to Archie written from "Sunrise," a house in Tramore, County Waterford, which Archie rented when he returned to Philadelphia after their family holiday that summer, judging that it was more economical for Gertie and the children to stay in Ireland.
File contains three letters from Gertie to Archie written from Digby, Nova Scotia, and one from Boston, enroute to Digby. Archie and Gertrude rented their first vacation home in Digby in 1915, and Gertrude and the children alternated spending summer holidays there and in Ireland.
File contains two letters from Gertie to Archie—one written on board the SS Leviathan in May and the other from Springbrook House in Ballycarry, County Antrim, in September.
File contains letters written from Gertie to Archie from Tunbridge Wells, England. Gertie accompanied Gussie and Alexander to England in the summer of 1932 to establish her daughter at boarding school in Surrey and her son at Cambridge University, and remained overseas until 1934. Before settling into a hotel in Tunbridge Wells, where the children could visit, she lived in a rented house between Waterford and Dunmore, in Ireland.
File contains letters written from Gertie to Archie from the south of England as well as from her parents' house in Ballincar, Ireland. Gertie accompanied Gussie and Alexander to England in the summer of 1932 to establish her daughter at boarding school in Surrey and her son at Cambridge University, and remained overseas until 1934.
File contains letters written from Gertie to Archie from Menton, in the south of France, as well as from Ireland. Gertie accompanied Gussie and Alexander to England in the summer of 1932 to establish her daughter at boarding school in Surrey and her son at Cambridge University, and remained overseas until 1934. To alleviate her rheumatoid arthritis, she stayed for some time with her sister-in-law Ruth in the warmer climate of the French Riviera.
File contains three letters from Gertie to Archie written from Winthrop, Ontario, where she and her father were visiting her Aunt Jean and (cousin?) Katherine.
File contains six letters written from Ballincar, County Sligo, and from the Independent Office in Sligo, variously addressed to Mr Leighton or Archie and signed Gertrude Hamilton, G. Hamilton or GH, and represent the earliest record of the couple's relationship. There are two slightly different versions of the first letter written by Gertie, dated 30 October 1902, but it's unknown which version she actually sent.
File contains letters written from Ballincar, County Sligo, and from the Independent Office (Sligo), addressed to Archie; earlier letters are signed G.A. Hamilton, which later gives way to "Gertie."
File contains letters and postcards written by Gertie to Archie from Ballincar, Sligo, and, on occasion, from her brother Angus's house in Ballycarry, County Antrim.
File contains letters written by Gertie to Archie from Ballincar, Sligo and Waterford; those dated from July 26, 1906 onwards are addressed to Archie in Philadelphia, PA.
File contains letters written by Gertie to Archie from Ballincar and Sligo, which include the final existant letters written before she joined him in Philadelphia, where they were married.
File contains letters written from Ballincar, County Sligo, and from the Independent Office (Sligo), addressed to Archie and signed G.H. Hamilton or Gertie. Letters are marked only with the day of the week, but were found alongside other correspondence dated 1903, now filed in Box 86, Folder 2.
File contains letters to Archie from Gertie, written from Ballincar, County Sligo, and from Sligo. Letters are marked only with the day of the week, but were found alongside correspondence dated 1904, now filed in Box 86, Folder 4.
File contains letters written by Gertie to Archie from Ballincar and Sligo. The letters are marked only with the day of the week, but were found alongside other correspondence dated 1905, which are now filed in Box 86, Folder 6.
File contains letters from Jane C. Greenham written from Belfast between 1906-1914. Jane worked in the office of J.W. Stewart, the building contractor with whom Archie was apprenticed when he first went to Sligo and met Gertrude Hamilton. She was also a correspondent of of Gertrude's. Folder 23 contains two small photographs of Jane that were loose among the letters: on the reverse of one is written "painfully true to life."
File contains four letters from R. Stewart to Archie written from Dublin and Portland, Oregon, which he describes as "big, clean, new & hustling & [with] a liberality about that's a great change when compared with the cheapness about Philadelphia."
File contains correspondence between Alexander Leighton and several different hospitals, clinics, universities, research institutions, and psychiatric associations regarding the development of psychiatric epidemiology programming.
File includes photographs of Archie and Gertrude Leighton's stone in the cemetery as well as images of the mock-ups of those designed for Gertrude C.K. Leighton and Alexander and Jane (Murphy) Leighton.
File contains letters from Florence McCann, a dog breeder in Manchester, England, from whom Alexander Leighton acquired his Newfoundland dog, Fusby. File also contains poems written in Fusby's honour; prize ribbons; correspondence regarding his importation and quarantine; 1923 correspondence from a Detroit kennel regarding an Irish Wolfhound puppy, and a 1925 note from a veterinary hospital advising A.O. Leighton of the death of the family cat.
