File contains letters to Alexander from correspondents including Isabel Taylor, Alexander E. Leighton, Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests, and others regarding the beaver studies project he undertook for his BSc.
File contains letters to Alexander from correspondents including Frank Ditmars, proprietor of Dish Lake Camp, George Priest, Bishop Percy, and Rev. A.W.L. Smith, St, Clement's Rectory.
File contains letters to Alexander from correspondents including Louis Giddings from the University of Alaska; the United States Committee for the Care of European Children, Maryland Division, in response to his enquiry about housing relatives from Britain; Johns Hopkins regarding various appointments; and Yoshiharu Yamada.
File contains letters to Alexander from correspondents including Harold C. Jones ("Stub"); Margie Black; Ade; Bill (Russell's father); Tom and Adelaide Cumming; Freddie Johnston; Clayton Woodman; Sydney; and Morris Opler. Included in the file are some copies of Alex's return correspondence.
File contains letters to Alexander from correspondents including Elmer Weir, from Smith Cove; Christopher Leggo; Ade; Alice; and Henry Volkening. File also includes copies of some of Alex's return correspondence.
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.
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
File contains correspondence with Adolf Meyer. Also includes summaries of recording instruments, synopses of psychiatric cases, a transcript of "Mental health film," and transcripts of conferences and conversations.
File contains cards and primarily printed emails between Jane Murphy and Ted and Anna Leighton. There is also correspondence between Jane Murphy and Doreen (Leighton) Walker and Jane Murphy and Margaret Leighton (Ted and Anna's daughter).
File contains correspondence regarding the Canadian Psychiatric Association. Also includes an abstract registration form for the CPA and a script for "A global approach to the prevention of depression and anxiety."
File contains correspondence with or about Elaine Cumming. Also contains a report on the Stirling County Study and an article by the Cummings titled "A functional analysis of a case of technological lag."
File contains correspondence with or about John H. and Elaine Cumming. Also includes manuscripts of articles by the Cummings, titled "A functional analysis of a case of technological lag," and "Wooden ships and iron men: a general statement."
File contains an assortment of newspaper clippings on sociological topics like education, polygamy, women's rights, teenage discipline, and women in the workforce in Nigeria. Also contains a 2-page index to included clippings.
File contains correspondence with or about Odd Stefan Dalgard. Also contains manuscripts for two of Dalgard's articles entitled "Social mobility and psychiatric disorder : a reevaluation and interpretation," and "Introduction of intensive mileu therapy in a traditional psychiatric unit."
File contains discussion outlines, lecture schedules, to-do lists, reading lists, bibliographies, agendas, memoranda and correspondence regarding the "seminar on wheels" lecture series. Also includes 10 photos : colour; 4 x 6 in and smaller.
File contains panel member lists, speech scripts, correspondence, and meeting minutes from sessions of the Dalhousie Social Science and Medicine Committee.
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.
File is comprised of documents related to data sampling in the city of Abeokuta. Contains lists of names, notes on divisions of neighbourhoods, and information and statistics relating to city areas and squares. Also contains a large folded map of Abeokuta.
File contains a list of follow-up tasks related to community respondent information. Also contains a bundle of small notecards with similar follow-up questions and notes.
File contains correspondence with or about Herbert M. Davy. Also contains manuscripts for Davy's articles and reports titled "Notes concerning the Digby Municipal Home: its past and present functions and its possible future place in the community," "The interplay between religion viewed as a community and a personal sentiment," "Report on the psychiatric clinic serving western Nova Scotia for the year 1957," and "Suggestions regarding future policy and research plans for the western Nova Scotia clinic."
