File contains an 1841 land grant to Isidore Theboult for land in Digby. Also includes correspondence between members of the Hardy family in Massachusetts and Digby, and two newspapers from Massachusetts and Nova Scotia with mentions of the Hardy family.
File contains correspondence with or about Henry Allen Moe. Also includes information on the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Also includes newspaper clippings.
File contains correspondence, certificates, forms, email printouts, event programs, and other documents related to Alexander Leighton's academic years.
File is loosely organized into two sections: Nova Scotia beaver and Norway beaver. Both sections contain correspondence to and from government officials, biologists, academics, and industry consultants regarding research for and publication of Alexander Leighton's study on beaver mental characteristics. The Norway section also contains excerpts from Norwegian newspapers. There is also a set of handwritten notes titled "Outline for study of the Beaver: D. Cross & A.H. Leighton."
File contains a manuscript for an article, and related correspondence. An attached note says that the handwritten version of the article was titled "Boadecia the bold."
File contains a manuscript titled "The Cherry Carnival" submitted to a competition at Princeton, which later became part of the Isaiah Wilson stories. Also contains correspondence regarding the manuscripts and notes on Hezekiah Williams.
File contains correspondence with or about Clyde Kluckhohn. Also includes 2 copies of a manuscript titled "A declaration of interdependence: a creed for Americans as world citizens."
File contains a wide array of communications to and from Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy, ranging from handwritten letters to email printouts. Correspondents seem to include friends, work acquaintances, and residents of Digby County (possible study respondents?).
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 contains correspondence with Adolf Meyer. Also includes summaries of recording instruments, synopses of psychiatric cases, a transcript of "Mental health film," and transcripts of conferences and conversations.
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 correspondence with or about Oskar Diethelms. Also includes notes on telephone conversations with Diethelms and a CV for Arthur Lambert Jones.
File contains correspondence with or about Frank Fremont-Smith. Also includes a schedule for the Conference on the Long-Range Biomedical and Psychosocial Effects of Nuclear War and an invitation to Frank Fremont-Smith's memorial service.
File contains several versions of Alexander Leighton's curricula vitae and biographical notes. Also contains correspondence, article title lists, library request documents, and some of Leighton's published articles.
File consists of communications, research notes, newspaper clippings, and boat racing information to be used in writing an article on the history of log canoes.
File contains correspondence with or about James S. Tyhurst. Also contains course materials, project outlines and proposals, curricula vitae, research notes, and meeting transcriptions.
File contains correspondence regarding Alexander Leighton's fellowship with the Social Science Research Council for 1939 - 1941. Also includes progress reports and final reports.
File contains correspondence with or about Daniel P. Mannix. Also includes wartime magazine excerpts and the autumn 1981 publication volume of the Baum Bugle.
