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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

Thompson, Laura

File contains correspondence with or about Laura Thompson. Also contains a press release and a report titled "Research on the development of Indian personality."

Teaching materials

Series consists of course materials, proposals, and progress reports for various classes and lecture series. Also contains correspondence regarding these teaching sessions and miscellaneous lists and other planning materials.

McNickle, D'Arcy

File contains correspondence with or about D'Arcy McNickle. Also contains a report titled "Comments on the tentative statement of policy of the war relocation authority, May 29, 1942." Also contains a photocopied newspaper obituary for D'Arcy McNickle.

Thomas, Dorothy S.

File contains correspondence with or about Dorothy S. Thomas. Also contains "Preliminary report on the Tule Lake Project," "Revised outline for preliminary reports," and "Instructions for Topaz observers."

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."

Mead, Margaret

File contains correspondence with or about Margaret Mead. Also contains a report titled "Provisional analytical summary of Institute of Pacific Relations conference on Japanese character structure."

Greenleaf, Robert K.

File contains correspondence with or about Robert K. Greenleaf. Also includes leader training information, member lists, and program outlines for the meetings on human relations. Also includes the articles "Proposed study to develop the direct training plans for getting policy matters across to employers," "People in the bell system," "Morale is the capacity of a group of people to pull together in pursuit of a common purpose."

G, miscellaneous

File contains correspondence with or about various individuals whose last names begin with G. Also includes "The effectiveness of the home demonstration program in reaching rural people and in meeting their needs," and "Supplemental note on sociocultural aspects of the proposed program."

Rennie, Thomas A. C.

File contains correspondence with or about Thomas A. C. Rennie. Also contains an obituary cut from a newspaper, telephone correspondence transcriptions, a progress report for the Yorkville Community Mental Health Research Project, and 1 photo : b&w; 3 x 3 3/4 in.

Personality tests and psychoneurotic screening

File contains preliminary research plans, a seminar report on psychological testing, a multiphase personality inventory, and an excerpt on psychoneurotic screening in the Army, all written or originating with M.L. Kohn (1928-2021), who may have been a graduate or post-doctoral student at Cornell, working under Alexander Leighton.

Eaton, Joseph W.

File contains correspondence with or about Joseph W. Eaton. Also contains a project summary for "An experiment in comprehensive informal education: the Gadna Program."
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