Archives Catalogue

MS-13-86, Box 66, Folder 1
File
1971 - 2013

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains research, meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, conference schedules, and contact lists relating to a study on chemical herbicide and pesticide use in Vietnam. Also contains 4 colour postcards and 3 photos : b&w; 5 x 7 in.

Hamamsy, Laila Shukry El

MS-13-86, Box 43, Folder 6
File
1950 - 2000

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Laila Shukry El Hamamsy. Also includes academic records, study participant information, a pamphlet on the American University at Cairo's Social Research Center, a curriculum vitae for Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Aziz El-Meligi.

Research and other relevant articles

MS-13-86, Box 94, Folder 5
File
1958 - 1990

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains research notes and manuscript drafts. Also includes some of Alexander Leighton's other articles on illness prevention and community development and rehabilitation.

Log canoe article

MS-13-86, Box 82, Folder 5
File
1939 - 1990

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of communications, research notes, newspaper clippings, and boat racing information to be used in writing an article on the history of log canoes.

Research and drafts

MS-13-86, Box 94, Folder 4
File
1958 - 1988

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Fie contains research notes and manuscript drafts for Alexander Leighton's book on mental illness prevention. Also included related correspondence.

Roper, George

MS-13-86, Box 53, Folder 24
File
1951 - 1987

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Harding, Courtenay M.

MS-13-86, Box 43, Folder 10
File
1987

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Courtenay M. Harding. Also includes information on interpreting lifecharts and patterns of recompensation in schizophrenia.

Whyte, William Foote

MS-13-86, Box 59, Folder 23
File
1942 - 1982

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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."

Lorenzo, plans

MS-13-86, Box 83, Folder 4
File
1974 - 1975

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains research notes and plot and character development plans for Alexander Leighton's novel Lorenzo.

Tyhurst, James S. (continued)

MS-13-86, Box 58, Folder 6
File
1952 - 1975

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Some aspects of technological change in relation to socio-cultural organization and personality patterning / by Albert Erha Imohiosen

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 8
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research proposal for the project along with filled social data questionnaires and semantic differentials questionnaires. Also contains 8 photographs of Nigerian individuals.

Proposals 1964 - 1969

MS-13-86, Box 97, Folder 8
File
1964 - 1969

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains applications for and correspondence regarding several grants, numbered MH 12892-06, MH-08180-02S1, MH 08180-01, and MH 02307-01. Also contains application feedback, project plans, and appendices.

Yoruba cases for teaching

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 4
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains case summaries for two patients (labelled case I and cased III) with background information and physical and mental health summaries.

Preparation of Yoruba food in Egba area / by Cecilia Akintunde

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 3
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains two copies of a document listing various traditional Yoruba recipes. Also contains a note on container sizes.

Notes on Stirling and Nigerian findings

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 11
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains tables, graphs, and charts comparing Nigerian and Stirling County data. Also contains notes and thoughts on analytics and data significance.

Frequency analysis of psychiatric disorders by social variables (corrected copy of SP #40)

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 9
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File includes statistics on the socioeconomic statuses of Cornell-Aro study respondents and information for the psychiatrist's random sampling results.

Extra copies of crucial tables (C - A analysis)

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 3
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on and tables of psychiatric rating and impairment statistics. There is much comparison between Yoruba villages, Abeokuta, and Stirling County and analysis of respective physical and mental health symptoms and patterns.

Enlightenment data (includes residence in Big City and never used in Cornell-Aro book)

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 4
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains note on village enlightenment categories, tables of social data statistics, and code for enlightenment samples.

Yoruba-Stirling comparisons (RIDIT calculations)

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 8
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains charts comparing datasets and statistics from Yoruba villages and Stirling County. Also includes note on the 1961 to 1963 Nova Scotia re-survey sample and a memo regarding RIDITs for 1952 to 1962.

Alexander Leighton's 1968 re-evaluations (n=25) and 54 PJ analysis card and codebook

MS-13-86, Box 17, Folder 6
File
[1968?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on re-evaluation of data from the 1961 and 1963 Nigerian studies, Also includes computer dataset printouts.

Grant no. MH 12892-01

MS-13-86, Box 97, Folder 11
File
1965 - 1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains grant applications, research proposals, and a final report for the Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry.

Typology analysis for 1961 and 1963 Yoruba data

MS-13-86, Box 16, Folder 15
File
[1967?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains typology notes and definitions, computer dataset printouts, and RIDIT value summaries for Yoruba data,

Definition of typology for Yoruba-Stirling comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 20
File
[1967?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on case classification definitions and criteria and computer dataset printouts of case typology statistics for Yoruba villages and Stirling County.

Hollingshead scale for socioeconomic status analysis of urban women and their husbands

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 3
File
[1965 - 1966?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains printouts of computer code, datasets and statistics on respondents' occupations and economic status, and notes on coding education data. File also includes a copy of "Two factor index of social position" by August B. Hollingshead.

Yoruba-Stirling comparisons (sex, integration, and age)

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 6
File
[1966?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains charts, datasets, and notes comparing age and sex statistics from Yoruba villages and Stirling County.

National Institute of Mental Health

MS-13-86, Box 97, Folder 6
File
1965 - 1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains budget documents, memoranda, notes, and correspondence regarding grant applications to the National Institute of Mental Health.

Rin - Chinese women cross-cultural comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 22
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a copy of the study "Psychophysiological reactions of a rural and suburban population in Taiwan" by Hsien Rin, Hung-Ming Chu, and Tsung-Yi Ling. Also contains correspondence between Hsien Rin and Jane Murphy and notes and data tables on modernization rates and number of children among respondents.

Nigerian movie

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 18
File
1961 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Files contains documents relating to the film "Mental Health Research in Nigeria" that was filmed during the 1961 Cornell-Aro study. Included are memos discussing the film's production and release, notes on filming scenes, a brochure for Cornell's program in social psychiatry, film production and narration notes, comments from researchers, and letters between researchers, librarians, and contacts in the Nigerian government. File also includes a publication called "African film bibliography 1965" by the Committee of Fine Arts and the Humanities of the African Studies Association.

Yoruba-Stirling HOS analysis

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 9
File
[1965?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains charts and datasets tracking demographic, social, and psychiatric statistics from Yoruba and Stirling Country respondents. Also contains notes on and memos regarding HOS coding for studying the role of women. Includes analysis cards for Stirling and Yoruba social and psychiatric data and master lists for sample coordination.

The Indiana 101 simulator for psychiatric symptoms and social factors analysis

MS-13-86, Box 6, Folder 11
File
1964 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains documents relating to the attemped Indiana IBM 101 simulator project for analyzing psychiatric symptoms and social factors. Includes communications between Jane Murphy, Veronica Shaw, and Grafton Trout of the Indiana University International Development Centre. Also includes IBM simulator dataset printouts and notes and memoranda regarding data migration processes. The project was never used.

Reliability between psychiatric and social data

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 9
File
1961 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a summary of reliability tests made by comparing psychiatric and social data protocols of the Cornell-Aro study. Also includes a memo regarding Jane Murphy's study on literacy, sociocultural chance, and mental illness in rural Yorubans.

Doctor comments on Yoruba women, sampling design, and plan for analysis

MS-13-86, Box 16, Folder 2
File
1963 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on sampling and analysis, information on Nigerian contacts, notes on tribal affiliation, and sample coding. Also contains transcriptions of Jane Murphy's interviews with Tol Asuni and T.A. Lambo regarding regional data samples. Also includes memos concerning psychiatric and social data samples, interview correspondence, and data evaluation.

Notes on symptoms after first round of evaluations

MS-13-86, Box 6, Folder 7
File
1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of Alexander Leighton's notes on respondents' health and survey answers after the first evaluation round.

Information on respondents' husbands' occupation and education

MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 10
File
1960 - 1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes, charts, and datasets tracking the occupations and education levels of the husbands of female study respondents. File also includes correspondence between researchers and Aro Hospital regarding education and migration statistics.

Notes on academic degrees and education in Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 8
File
1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains research notes on the history of schools and public education in Nigeria. Comparisons are made between British and Nigerian degree systems. File also includes correspondence between researchers and the Nigerian Consulate in New York regarding Nigerian schooling and the place of women therein.

Murphy's 1964 analysis of characteristics of traditional and modern villages

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 15
File
1960 - 1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on social and physical histories of several villages and criteria for distinguishing traditional from modern and integrated from disintegrated villages. Also contains charts compiling and comparing village data.

Nigerian HOS analysis

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 11
File
[1964?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of datasets and charts related to study respondent demographic statistics.

Discussion by Macklin and Harding on Yoruba statistical analysis

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 17
File
1961 - 1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on and general questions about analysis of the Nigerian data samples. Also includes a draft summary of a discussion meeting with Jane Murphy, David Macklin, Veronica Shaw, and Laurel Hodden.

Nigerian film at Nova Scotia archives

MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 16
File
1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains information on the film "Mental Health Research in Nigeria" that was filmed during the 1961 Cornell-Aro study. Also includes a list of showings.

Psychological evaluation abstracts for the role of women

MS-13-86, Box 6, Folder 5
File
1961 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains evaluation abstracts for some female respondents. Respondents' answers to health and background questions are listed, followed by interviewers' comments. File also includes notes on randomizing questionnaires and evaluations, and a memorandum report of the summarizing process.

Notes on salary for women

MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 12
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of four short notes of employment and salary information.

Planning acculturation analysis

MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 13
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of notes and statistics on respondents' religious acculturation and analysis.

Uses of psychophysiological measures in cross-cultural psychiatric surveys / by Warren B. Miller

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 4
File
1962 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a draft of Warren Miller's study and several pages of related research notes. Also contains a memo regarding comments and proposed edits to the draft, and a letter to Miller from Laurel Hodgden regarding the study "Psychiatric disorder among the Yoruba."

A study of resistance to psychiatric epidemiological interviewing among the Yoruba / by Zebulon C. Taintor

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 5
File
1962 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains documents relating to Taintor's study and two drafts of the full study text. Includes mental and physical health surveys and datasets, interview fieldnotes, and statistics and calculations. Also contains a letter from Laurel Hodgden regarding the usability of the data.

Information on education and age by ABCD

MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 14
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains charts, calculations, datasets, and graphs tracking education and age. File also includes notes on the relationship between education level and mental health.

Social data card corrections

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 3
File
1961 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on coding and writing corrections to be made to social data questionnaire cards.

Notes and marginals on social science questionnaire data

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 7
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on respondents' answers to the social science data questionnaire. Answers are compiled by question and percentages and coding notes are included.

Macklin's 1961 analysis of traditional - modern and integrated - disintegrated villages