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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

Professional correspondence

Series consists of professional correspondence (including letters, telegrams, emails, memoranda, etc) between Alexander Leighton, Dorothea Leighton, and Jane Leighton Murphy and various contacts regarding studies, academic placements, publications, and research.

Moe, Henry Allen

File contains correspondence with or about Henry Allen Moe. Also includes information on the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Also includes newspaper clippings.

Beaver study correspondence

File is loosely organized into two sections: Nova Scotia beaver and Norway beaver. Both sections contain correspondence to and from government officials, biologists, academics, and industry consultants regarding research for and publication of Alexander Leighton's study on beaver mental characteristics. The Norway section also contains excerpts from Norwegian newspapers. There is also a set of handwritten notes titled "Outline for study of the Beaver: D. Cross & A.H. Leighton."

Hezekiah Williams

File contains a manuscript titled "The Cherry Carnival" submitted to a competition at Princeton, which later became part of the Isaiah Wilson stories. Also contains correspondence regarding the manuscripts and notes on Hezekiah Williams.

Kluckhohn, Clyde

File contains correspondence with or about Clyde Kluckhohn. Also includes 2 copies of a manuscript titled "A declaration of interdependence: a creed for Americans as world citizens."

Porpoise Oil and the Movie Makers and Amateur Cinema League

File contains Leighton's manuscript for an article about making his film "Porpoise Oil"; correspondence with the editors of Movie Makers; a copy of the Movie Makers issue in which his film was given an honorable mention; and a medallion awarded for his film being chosen for screening at the First International Photographic Exhibition.
Correspondence with Adolf Meyer

Correspondence with Adolf Meyer

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.
Correspondence between Movie Makers magazine and Alexander Leighton

Correspondence between Movie Makers magazine and Alexander Leighton

File contains a series of letters between Arthur Gale and Alexander Leighton regarding his film "Porpoise Oil." The correspondence includes an announcement of its inclusion as an Honorable Mention by Movie Makers staff in the selection of the Ten Best Non-theatrical Films of 1937, as well as letters about an article Gale commissioned from Leighton about the making of his film. There is also correspondence from 1941 with James Moore at The Amateur Cinema League regarding Alexander Leighton's possible submission of his film about Navajo life, "Work for your Own," for a contest in the Special Class.

Diethelm, Oskar

File contains correspondence with or about Oskar Diethelms. Also includes notes on telephone conversations with Diethelms and a CV for Arthur Lambert Jones.

Fremont-Smith, Frank

File contains correspondence with or about Frank Fremont-Smith. Also includes a schedule for the Conference on the Long-Range Biomedical and Psychosocial Effects of Nuclear War and an invitation to Frank Fremont-Smith's memorial service.
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