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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

Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria (1961) and the Study on the Role of Women (1963)

Series is comprised of materials related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Research Project in the Western Region and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women. In the Cornell-Aro study, modeled on the Stirling County Study, Leighton’s team analyze the mental health trends of Nigerians living in both major cities and small rural villages via interviews, surveys, and observations. The Role of Women study may possibly be considered a ‘sub-study’ of the Cornell-Aro study, as it uses much of the same research material supplemented by new data. Materials present include correspondence, memoranda, datasets, research notes, fieldnotes reports, speeches, photographs, forms, applications, surveys and questionnaires, medical documents, affiliated studies, and comparative analyses.

1959 trip to Nigeria

File contains documents relating to Alexander Leighton's 1959 trip to Nigeria. Includes a photograph, several bundles of research notes, schedules, graphic materials, and patient medical notes. Includes an article from the New York Times on the Nigerian election, and no. 10 of the Western Nigerian Illustrated quarterly publication featuring an article about psychiatric treatment at the Aro Hospital. Also includes an envelope labelled 'thought disorder pills' containing five spherical pills.

Nigerian movie

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.

Bloom, Joseph

File contains correspondence with or about Joseph Bloom. Also contains 4 of Joseph Bloom's published articles: "Patterns of Eskimo homicide," "Eskimo sleep paralysis," "An Athabascan Indian feud," and "Cross-cultural forensic psychiatry in Alaska."

Chase, Stuart

File contains correspondence with or about Stuart Chase. Also includes manuscripts for two of Stuart Chases' articles, titled "The new golden bough," and "Roads to agreement: some successful methods in human relations."

Chance, Norman A.

File contains correspondence with or about Norman A. Chance. Also contains a manuscript written by Norman A. Chance for an article titled "Conceptual and methodological problems in cross-cultural health survey research," to appear in the American Journal of Public Health.

Clausen, John A.

File contains correspondence with or about John A. Clausen. Also contains meeting minutes from the National Advisory Mental Health Council and a copy of an article written by John A. Clausen for the Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, titled "Health and the life course: some personal observations." Also includes an invitation to John A. Clausen's memorials service.

Collier Sr., John and Collier, Donald

File contains correspondence with or about John Collier Sr., and Donald Collier. Also includes newspaper clippings and two of John Collier's articles, "A perspective on the United States Indian situation of 1952 in its hemispheric and world-wide bearing," and "Free inquiry, and the scientist's responsibility." Documents are primarily related to indigenous communities and affairs in the United States.

Davy, Herbert M.

File contains correspondence with or about Herbert M. Davy. Also contains manuscripts for Davy's articles and reports titled "Notes concerning the Digby Municipal Home: its past and present functions and its possible future place in the community," "The interplay between religion viewed as a community and a personal sentiment," "Report on the psychiatric clinic serving western Nova Scotia for the year 1957," and "Suggestions regarding future policy and research plans for the western Nova Scotia clinic."

Dreis, Thelma A.

File contains correspondence with or about Thelma A. Dreis. Also includes a photocopied obituary for Milburn Lincoln Wilson cut from a newspaper, and a newsletter from the Survey of International Development.

Gessain, Robert

File contains correspondence with or about Robert Gessain. Also includes a brochure for the International Association of Students in Economics and Commerce, photocopied journal articles, and manuscripts for "Avenues to understanding man," and "Lack of HTLV-1 and LAV/HTLV-III antibodies in patients with multiple sclerosis from France and French West Indies."

Handler, Philip

File contains correspondence with or about Philip Handler. Also includes photocopied newspaper articles and pages from the senate congressional record with pages on the study on the use of herbicides in South Vietnam.

Henderson, A. Scott

File contains correspondence with or about A. Scott Henderson. Also includes the article "Epidemiology of dementia: the current state" by A. Scott Henderson, from the European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience.

Kates, Nick

File contains correspondence with or about Nick Kates. Also includes a photocopy of the article "The Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology: bringing together teachers, researchers and clinicians."

Leggo, Christopher

File contains correspondence with or about Christopher Leggo. Also contains the article "Industrial psychiatry in the community of Oak Ridge" from Industrial Medicine and "The prescription for light work for the partially disabled employee" from California Medicine.

Mannix, Daniel P.

File contains correspondence with or about Daniel P. Mannix. Also includes wartime magazine excerpts and the autumn 1981 publication volume of the Baum Bugle.

Various manuscripts, reviews, proposals

File contains letters concerning the book "The Navaho Door" by Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton, a 1945 copy of the New York Times Book Review covering Leighton's book "The Governing of Men," a bundle of abstracts from the American Philosophical Society's AGM in 1952, a bulletin on teaching English to the Navajo, and a proposal for a retirement commemoration conference for Alexander Leighton. Also includes some of Alexander Leighton's reports and articles: "Pilot study of cultural items in medical diagnosis," "Mental health in Canada: working toward a better future," "Cornell southwestern program: a summary report on five years 1948-1953," and "Interview with the editor of a small town paper."

Reviews and mentions for book "The Governing of Men"

File contains correspondence regarding Alexander Leighton's book "The Governing of Men." Also contains several periodicals containing reviews of the book, such as Baptist Adult Union Quarterly, Saturday Review of Literature, The Prison World, and the Rudge Memorandum. Also contains 2 photos : b&w; 8 x 10in and smaller.

Porpoise Oil and the Movie Makers and Amateur Cinema League

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.