Archives Catalogue

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

Reviews of Stirling County Study publications

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 8
File
1960 - 1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of clippings, periodicals, and correspondence regarding reviews of Alexander Leighton's published works on the Stirling County Study.

T tests for differences between Nigerian 1961 sample and Stirling 1952 sample

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 11
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of pages of calculations determining the differences between male and female respondents and between the Nigerian and Stirling County data samples.

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.

Letter from Alexander Leighton to his father, 1938

MS-13-86, Box 112, Folder 1
Item
August 5, 1938

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a letter written to his father from Alexander Leighton during his residency at Johns Hopkins. The letter addresses his sister Gertrude's mental health and details about equipment for a film project.

Tables on psychiatric findings from 1964 rural Yoruba study on integration, changing villages, and enlightenment

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 2
File
[1964?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains tables of demographic and socioeconomic data with ABCD RIDIT calculations. Contains comparison data from Stirling County.

Yoruba-Stirling comparisons (working notes)

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 10
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printouts and datasets relating to Yoruba village and Stirling County data.

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.

Length of residence in integrated and disintegrated communities

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 17
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printout datasets, research notes, and statistical charts comparing information for male and female respondents in integrated and disintegrated communities.

Typology analysis for Yoruba-Stirling comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 19
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on RIDIT values and typology analysis for comparing Yoruba and Stirling data. Also contains computer printout datasets and statistical charts.

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.

Stirling-Yoruba early notes on 1952 - 1961 - 1963 comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 4
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains data tables comparing psychiatric rating statistics from Stirling County and Nigeria.

Age and sex distribution for Yoruba-Stirling comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 5
File
[1964?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of two copies of a chart comparing age and sex data for Yoruba villages and Stirling County.

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.

Yoruba-Stirling comparisons (major symptom patterns)

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 7
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of charts comparing psychiatric symptom data from Yoruba villages and Stirling County.

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.

Yoruba-Stirling comparisons (duplicates of statistical tests)

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 9
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains charts and data tables recording and comparing integration, sex, and age statistics for Yoruba villages and Stirling County.

Stirling HOS analysis card and codebook 53PX (n=254)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 1
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printout datasets of Stirling County statistics. Also contains analysis cards for Stirling County psychiatric and social data.

Yoruba-Stirling diagnostic analysis

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 10
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer dataset printouts of Yoruba and Stirling data. Also contains notes on data analysis and category criteria.

Eskimo, Yoruba, and Stirling comparisons (types I and II)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 11
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer dataset printouts and statistical charts from the Stirling County, Eskimo, and Yoruba studies.

Eskimo, Yoruba, and Stirling comparisons (east west centre analysis)

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

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains charts and datasets of age and sex characteristics for cross-cultural comparisons.

Eskimo, Yoruba, and Stirling comparisons (under 30 notes)

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

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on demographic, psychiatric, and social data for study respondents under 30.

Eskimo, Yoruba, and Stirling comparisons (under 30 HOS analysis)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 14
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printouts and note on statistical analysis of data from the Nigerian, Stirling County, and Alaskan studies.

Notes on cross-cultural comparisons of the prevalence of depression (Stirling, Nigeria, Eskimo, Sweden, France)

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

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on the prevalence of psychoneurotic depression across various cultures and regions of study.

Eskimo and Yoruba case vignettes for Alexander Leighton's APA paper on paranoid reaction

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 16
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of individual psychiatric respondent case summaries from the Nigerian and Alaskan studies.

Eskimo-Yoruba report

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 17
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a letter from Robert Edgerton of the University of California to Jane Murphy regarding publication of her paper "Eskimo and Yoruba women: cross-cultural studies of psychopathology."

Eskimo-Yoruba analysis

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 18
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains research notes, respondent master lists, computer dataset printouts, and tables of statistics relating to respondent psychiatric data and symptoms.

Eskimo, Yoruba, and Stirling notes and tests of significance

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 19
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains data tables and research notes on statistical analysis findings from respondent psychiatric data.

Analysis card and codebook 99PX (n=138)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 2
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printout datasets of Stirling County statistics for female respondents. Also includes analysis card for Stirling county female psychiatric and social data.

Elmira-Yoruba comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 23
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains materials comparing and analyzing the differences between the role of Yoruba and Elmira women. Includes research notes, answer scales and criteria, socioeconomic and employment data, family dynamic information, and statistical analyses.

The changing image of American women: career orientation and neo-traditional roles / by John E. Hudson

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 24
File
1956 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a copy of Hudson's study and a progress report and copy of the survey for Williams' study "Social and cultural factors affecting role-conflict and adjustment among American women: a pilot investigation." Also includes a copy of the Cornell-Aro study social data questionnaire and a computer dataset printout of Yoruba respondents.

Social data from psychiatric questionnaire for Yoruba-Stirling comparison, DPT (n=245)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 3
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a computer dataset printout of Yoruba psychiatric data.

Number of children analysis for Yoruba and Stirling women

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 5
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of charts, graphs, and computer dataset printouts. Statistics include age of female respondents, number of children, and effects on respondents' mental health.

Codebook and analysis deck for comparison of Stirling women and urban and rural Yoruba women, 55 PJ (n=369)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 6
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer dataset printouts and codebooks for female respondents from Stirling County and Yoruba villages.

Mental health of 369 Yoruba and Stirling women ("all-women" RIDITs)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 7
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer dataset printouts and statistic charts of psychiatric and social data of Stirling and Yoruba women.

138 Stirling women master list (prepared by Marcia Kahn)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 8
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains datasets specific to female study respondents. Also contains master list of female Stirling study respondents.

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 Road" case study

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 1
File
1970

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains documents related to the case study of "The Road," an impoverished area in Stirling County.

Stirling report #66 - Social environment and psychiatric disorders : A plan for an epidemiological study

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 2
File
1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report outlining the purpose, framework, objectives, and research plan for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #42 - Handbook: The Stirling County studies in community development (indicators of social disintegration)

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 3
File
1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a handbook of social and psychiatric principles to be used by social science researchers working on the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #366 - Planning statement for Stirling County study

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 10
File
1948

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a planning statement report for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #444 - Maine-Stirling county workshop report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 11
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report from a workshop in Augusta, Maine regarding the sociocultural factors and psychiatric epidemiology of the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #183 - Planning conference