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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

Kern, Joseph

File contains correspondence with or about Joseph Kern. Also includes the report "Theory and practice in a program of social change," and materials for a psychology course.

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?".

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."

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.

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.

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."

Wheeler, D. Mark

File contains correspondence with or about D. Mark Wheeler. Also contains a project summary titled "Validity and prevalence of psychiatric disorders in a general population."

Hiatt, Howard H.

File contains correspondence with or about Howard H. Hiatt. Also includes the article "A program in mental health in the Harvard School of Public Health" by Morton Beiser and a draft of the Harvard School of Public Health's annual dean's report for 1973-1974

Thomas, William L. "Bill"

File contains correspondence with or about William L. "Bill" Thomas. Also contains "Index to the 24 sites selected for air photo interpretation study of the human aspects of the use of herbicides in south Vietnam."

Cardoza, Victor (1968 - )

File contains correspondence with or about Victor Cardoza. Also contains newspaper clippings about Victor Cardoza being appointed Judge, a blank Nova Scotia hospital outpatient registration form, and a copy of the president's report from the 1974 "mental health/nova scotia" annual meeting.

Lane, Anton

File contains correspondence with or about Anton Lane. Also includes a report on "Beliefs, attitudes, and behavior of lowland Vietnamese."

Inkeles and Murphy data comparisons

File contains a computer printout dataset of frequency distribution comparison between Jane Murphy's and Alex Inkeles' data. Also includes copies of several of Inkeles' published articles: "The fate of personal adjustment in the process of modernization," "The OM scale: a comparative socio-psychological measure of individual modernity," "Some social psychological effects and noneffects of literacy in a new nation," "The modernization of man," and "Making men modern: on the causes and consequences of individual change in six developing countries."

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.
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