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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

Hezekiah Williams

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.

Kluckhohn, Clyde

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."

Whyte, William Foote

File contains correspondence with or about William Foote Whyte. Also contains project and study summaries, Whyte's curriculum vitae, research reports, chapter manuscripts, research proposals, research plan outlines, and papers titled "Toward a new model for social research on health in Latin America" and "Developing the national survey for Peru: notes on planning discussion."

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."

Pearson, John

File contains correspondence with or about John Pearson. Also contains a manuscript for "Sensations, their nature and origin: brief statement of the findings of the Dartmouth Eye Institute."

Kubota, Shosaku

File contains correspondence with or about Shosaku Kubota. Also contains manuscripts for articles titled "A glimpse into Sartre's existentialism introduced to Japan" and "Spread of cultural movement to communities in Japan."

Hill, W. W. "Nibs"

File contains correspondence with or about W. W. "Nibs" Hill. Also includes a manuscript for "The inter-university field training program in cultural anthropology."

Taylor, Carl C.

File contains correspondence with or about Carl C. Taylor. Also contains manuscripts for "The role of social science in agricultural extension" and "Some principles of human relations that have bearing on extension work."

Galdston, Iago

File contains correspondence with or about Iago Galdston. Also contains a list of consultants to the New York Academy of Medicine's advisory committee on "panic and morale." Also contains a manuscript for the article "Psychiatric disorder among the Yoruba: a report from the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria."

Roper, George

File contains correspondence with or about George Roper. Also includes a manuscript for "The teacher's role in relation to sociological and psychological stress," discussion transcriptions, and an outline for a case-finding device.

Thoughts

File contains notes and manuscripts for various projects titled "The wreck of the Aspiration," "A walk in the woods," and others.

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.

Tyhurst, James S. (continued)

File contains correspondence with or about James S. Tyhurst. Also contains course materials, project outlines and proposals, curricula vitae, research notes, meeting transcriptions, case notes, and manuscripts.

Henson, Guy

File contains correspondence with or about Guy Henderson. Also includes a manuscript for "A program of rural development for eastern Nova Scotia" and a booklet titled "Non-utopian democracy and the university."

Dohrenwend, Bruce P.

File contains correspondence with or about Bruce P. Dohrenwend. Also contains memos and manuscripts for reports and articles: "The problems of units of analysis as it applies to definition of community units and the FLS stratification of Digby County," "Classification system for community industries and occupations" and "Conceptualization and operationalization of conditions which may contribute to social organization-disorganization in the focus areas of Stirling County."
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