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Dalhousie University Archives Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds English
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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

Boulton, Alan A.

File contains correspondence with or about Alan A. Boulton. Also includes a script for a presentation by Alexander Leighton in Saskatoon, titled "True and treated prevalence rates in geographically defined populations."

Brown, Bertram S.

File contains correspondence with or about Bertram S. Brown. Also contains a script for Bertram S. Brown's farewell address to the National Institute of Mental Health.

Day, Edmund Ezra

File contains correspondence with or about Edmund Ezra Day. Also includes "Social responsibilities of business education: a convocation address commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the school of administration," by Edmund Ezra Day.

Hatcher, J. Donald

File contains correspondence with or about J. Donald Hatcher. Also includes script for address to the Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine, Franklin M. M. White's schedule and curriculum vitae, and the article "Curriculosclerosis - will medical education change?".

Kaplan, Berton H.

File contains correspondence with or about Berton H. Kaplan. Also contains a curriculum vitae for Berton H. Kaplan, a reference report, newspaper clippings, and a script for a speech.

Whitehorn, John C.

File contains correspondence with or about John C. Whitehorn. Also includes a lecture titled "Changing concepts of psychoneurosis in relation to military psychiatry" and pages from a book about Whitehorn.

The energy pattern

File contains scripts for lectures numbered 2 to 7, all related to energy patterns. Titles include "The energy pattern," "The energy pattern and dynamic equilibrium," "Types of relationships between energy patterns," "Introduction to principles of human relations," "Dynamic equilibrium and the individual human being," and "The dynamic equilibrium of the individual, continued."

Human relations

File contains scripts for lectures numbered 1 to 10. Titles include "Continued discussion of the nature of scientific thinking," "Equilibrium analysis," "The role of symbols," "Systems of belief," "Equilibria of individuals," "Union-management relations," "Union-management relations, continued: pressure on the foremen," "Union-management relations, continued: the split within the union," "What happens in collective bargaining," and "Transitions in union-management relations."

Anthropology

File contains scripts/articles titled "The case of the missing horses" and "Acceptance of water spreading by Bedouin nomads." Also includes "A classified bibliography of the literature on culture and personality."

Sociology and anthropology, continued

File contains speeches/papers titled "A comparative study of social and cultural change," "Community resistance and the role of the agent of change," "The role of the agent of change: cultural considerations," "Human differences and the nature of custom," "Problems of cultural change: belief," "Problems of change in material," and "Problems of change in social organization."

Incentives for productivity

File contains 7 lectures related to productivity. Titles include "A purpose for production," "Properties of industrial hierarchies," "A theory of economic incentive," "Economic incentives and system of belief," "The logics of management," "The worker's world," "The flight of the time study man," "Man and money."

Aubrey Lewis

File contains a script for a memorial speech for Aubrey Lewis, and a manuscript paper titled "Research direction in psychiatric epidemiology."

Dalhousie seminar on wheels

File contains discussion outlines, lecture schedules, to-do lists, reading lists, bibliographies, agendas, memoranda and correspondence regarding the "seminar on wheels" lecture series. Also includes 10 photos : colour; 4 x 6 in and smaller.
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