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Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds Subseries
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Correspondence to Gertrude Hamilton Leighton from her husband, Archie Leighton

Subseries contains letters and cards written to Gertrude from her husband, Archie, starting a few years prior to their marriage and continuing until the mid-1950s. The greatest volume of letters date from those periods when Gertrude returned to Ireland for extended family visits when the children were young, and again when she accompanied them for several years to the UK where Alex attended Cambridge University and Gussie went to boarding school in Kent.

Correspondence to Gertrude Leighton from her children, Alex and Gertrude (Gussie)

Subseries contains letters and cards written to their mother by Alex and Gertrude (Gussie) Leighton. The bulk of Gertrude's letters were written from boarding school in Kent while her mother lived in hotels nearby or with her family in Ireland. Alex wrote to his mother throughout her life; by the late 1940s he appears to treat his correspondence to her as a weekly journal. Letters to their dather are filed under

Data analysis

Subseries includes data for and analyses of socioeconomic aspects of Yoruba women's lives (education, migration, social class, health, children, husbands, religion, family, etc.). The 1963 data seems to be part of another study, referred to in several files as "The 1963 study on the role of Yoruba women," that either piggybacked off the Cornell-Aro study or was somehow included as a sub-project.
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