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Colored moving pictures of "Porpoise Oil"

File contains two posters for Alex Leighton's teenaged presentation of his "motion pictures in color of a Porpoise Hunt ... taken locally, and of great interest," with the 25 cent admission ticket benefitting the Digby community hall, where the film was shown.

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

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.

Letters from Archibald Leighton to Gertrude Hamilton, 1902

File contains letters written to Miss Hamilton (later Gertie) from A.O. Hamilton (also signed as AOL). The letters are largely written between from Dundalk, near the border between Northern and Southern Ireland, and begin in October 1902, after Archie met Gertrude when he was sent by his employer to Sligo to supervise the building of a post office. His letter dated 24 December, which includes Christmas greeting and reference to a gift, is sent from Belfast enroute to Islandmagee, where Archie's family lived.

Correspondence from Gertrude Hamilton to Archibald Leighton, 1902

File contains six letters written from Ballincar, County Sligo, and from the Independent Office in Sligo, variously addressed to Mr Leighton or Archie and signed Gertrude Hamilton, G. Hamilton or GH, and represent the earliest record of the couple's relationship. There are two slightly different versions of the first letter written by Gertie, dated 30 October 1902, but it's unknown which version she actually sent.

Letters from Archibald Leighton to Gertrude Hamilton, 1903

File contains letters written to Gertie (also "Tawney mane") from Archie. The letters are written from Dundalk, near the border between Northern and Southern Ireland, and from Belfast. Some include stories and inked illustrations, and many contain references to impending or past visits to Sligo to see Gertie.

Correspondence from Jane C. Greenham to Archibald Leighton

File contains letters from Jane C. Greenham written from Belfast between 1906-1914. Jane worked in the office of J.W. Stewart, the building contractor with whom Archie was apprenticed when he first went to Sligo and met Gertrude Hamilton. She was also a correspondent of of Gertrude's. Folder 23 contains two small photographs of Jane that were loose among the letters: on the reverse of one is written "painfully true to life."

Letter from Archie Leighton to his sister Katie

Item is a letter written by Archie during his early days in Philadelphia in which he writes of the heat, his past times, and a weekend in Atlantic City, about which he comments on the ubiquity of the bathing dress, worn by "every age from tiny youngsters of three & four to bald headed grey whiskered old men & grey haired old ladies."
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