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

Training social scientists for post-war conditions / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 2
File
[1942?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a manuscript for a paper on post-war social sciences.

The view from here : human values, the science of human relations and government / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 3
File
1946 - 1947

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a manuscript for an article and correspondence regarding the article's editing and publication.

Our peace / Price of peace / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 4
File
1943 - 1947

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains three manuscripts: "Price of peace," "Our peace," and "An immediate task for an institute of ethnic democracy," and related correspondence.

Mental health promotion

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 1
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains 4 manuscripts: "Mental health promotion in the perspective of North American psychiatry : a historical review" by Norman Dain, Gerald Grob, and Alexander H. Leighton, "Psychiatry in nineteenth-century United States : the rise and decline of moral treatment, a reevaluation" by Norman Dain, "Mental health policy in modern America: myth and reality" by Gerald N. Grob, and "Implications for mental health promotion" by Alexander H. Leighton.

Mental health : patterns of personality adaptation / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 2
File
1971

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a manuscript by Alexander Leighton.

Promoting mental health and preventing mental illnesses : possibilities and risks / by Alexander H. Leighton and Jane M. Murphy

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 3
File
1989

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Full contains a (seemingly) complete manuscript for a book by Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy.

Unpublished manuscripts by Alexander Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 4
File
1980 - 2013

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains manuscripts for unpublished papers: "Barriers to the care of mental illness," "Antecedents of the mental health movement in Atlantic Canada : some implications for today," "The psychobiological orientation," and "Psychiatric diagnosis in life science perspective" by Alexander Leighton. Also includes related correspondence and review feedback forms.

Research plan / M.L. Kohn

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 1
Item

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a typed manuscript (lightly annotated and with a handwritten title page) outlining a preliminary research plan in response to the question: "Are there patterns of society and culture that predispose or produce neuroses and psychoses in the constituent members?"

Stirling report # - Chapter 2 : cosmos in the Gallup city dump / by Alexander Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 7
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a manuscript for the second chapter of what seems to be a book by Alexander Leighton.

Mental health and social environment : [manuscript]

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 19
File
[195-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File includes a draft manuscript possibly for the book published as My Name is Legion: Foundations for a Theory of Man in Relation to Culture.

Stirling report #464 - Chapter v : how sick is sick?

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 6
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a manuscript for a chapter in a book about the Stirling County study.

(part of) Stirling report #446 - Chapter III : community reactions

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 8
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a manuscript for a chapter in a book about the Stirling County study.

NSP 571 - Canada, Sweden, Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 9
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

The personality study as a means of investigating the dynamics of a community / by Alexander and Dorothy Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 11
File
1941

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Reminiscences of applied anthropology / Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 12
File
1977

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File includes Alexander Leighton's paper and a written introduction by Marc-Adelard Tremblay for an address given to the Canadian Ethnological Society at Dalhousie University's Faculty Club on 24 February 1977.

A survey of general physicians : manual for the psychiatric interview and use of the summary sheet : the Stirling County Study / Jane M. Murphy, PhD

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 2
File
1995

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File includes copies of "A Survey of General Physicians : Manual for Participating General Practitioners" and "Appendix A : Nomenclature and Classification in the Stirling County Study."

Handwritten manuscript pages for "Come Near"

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folders 14-18
File
1977

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains handwritten manuscript pages with inconsistent pagination, sometimes clipped together in sections; file contents were divided between individual folders by the processing archivists in the same order and groupings as originally arranged and received.

Introduction for Thomas Ling's book

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 12
File
1953 - 1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a manuscript for the introduction to Thomas Ling's book, "Mental Health and Human Relations in Industry." File also contains correspondence with Thomas Ling and publishers regarding the introduction.

Homosexuality / by Thomas A. C. Rennie

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 15
File
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a manuscript for a conference paper. File also contains letters regarding the editing and publication of the paper.

Anthropology and social psychiatry / by Thomas A. C. Rennie

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 16
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains two copies of an article for American Anthropologist.

Lectures delivered 1956

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 22
File
1955 - 1956

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains manuscripts for speeches, lectures, and conferences delivered in 1956. File also contains correspondence regarding their presentation and publication.

Foreword for Dr. Opler's book

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 6
File
1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a manuscript for the foreword of a psychiatry book by Dr. Opler.

Brunetti, Pier M. / Pierre-Marie

MS-13-86, Box 35, Folder 13
File
1960 - 1985

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Pier M. Brunetti. Also includes activity reports, the Vaucluse Study health questionnaire and summary, and a copy of Brunetti's article "Are we fostering health?: Interdisciplinary considerations on the present ecologic and human crisis."

Bunker, Robert

MS-13-86, Box 35, Folder 16
File
1948 - 1959

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Robert Bunker. Also contains a manuscript for an article called "Classroom in the field."

Chance, Norman A.

MS-13-86, Box 37, Folder 1
File
1952 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Norman A. Chance. Also contains a manuscript written by Norman A. Chance for an article titled "Conceptual and methodological problems in cross-cultural health survey research," to appear in the American Journal of Public Health.

Collis, Robert

MS-13-86, Box 37, Folder 15
File
1961 - 1979

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Robert Collis. Also includes manuscripts for chapters 3 and 4 of a book.

Cumming, John H. and Elaine

MS-13-86, Box 38, Folder 3
File
1955 - 1959

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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."

Cumming, Elaine

MS-13-86, Box 38, Folder 4
File
1955 - 1957

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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."

Dalgard, Odd Stefan

MS-13-86, Box 38, Folder 8
File
1972 - 1986

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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."

Doerr/Nangeroni, Alice L.

MS-13-86, Box 39, Folder 5
File
1957 - 1968

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Alice Doerr/Nangeroni. Also contains manuscripts for the articles "Community agency survey - report on field work, summer, 1957" and "Overall plan for analysis: clinic-community survey." Also includes a copy of the Digby medical practice survey and a field work schedule.

Dohrenwend, Bruce P.

MS-13-86, Box 39, Folder 6
File
1954 - 1957

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Bruce P. Dohrenwend. Also contains memos and manuscripts for reports and articles: "The problems of units of analysis as it applies to definition of community units and the FLS stratification of Digby County," "Classification system for community industries and occupations" and "Conceptualization and operationalization of conditions which may contribute to social organization-disorganization in the focus areas of Stirling County."

Fitchen, Janet Mathews

MS-13-86, Box 40, Folder 28
File
1968 - 1974

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Janet Mathews Fitchen. Also includes manuscripts for articles and speeches: "Rural poverty in upstate New York: the collapse of community," and "Rural poverty in Northern Appalachia: analysis of economic patterns in depressed rural neighbourhoods."

Gessain, Monique and Robert

MS-13-86, Box 41, Folder 13
File
1963 - 1988

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Robert and Monique Gessain. Also contains lecturer registration forms, a manuscript for "Report on the sciences of man: can psychiatry travel?," a booklet titled "Nicolas et Antoine en Nouvelle Ecosse," and 6 photos : 4 b&w and 2 colour; 5 x 7 1/2 in and smaller.

Gessain, Robert

MS-13-86, Box 41, Folder 14
File
1963 - 1991

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Robert Gessain. Also includes a brochure for the International Association of Students in Economics and Commerce, photocopied journal articles, and manuscripts for "Avenues to understanding man," and "Lack of HTLV-1 and LAV/HTLV-III antibodies in patients with multiple sclerosis from France and French West Indies."

Galdston, Iago

MS-13-86, Box 41, Folder 6
File
1950 - 1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Iago Galdston. Also contains a list of consultants to the New York Academy of Medicine's advisory committee on "panic and morale." Also contains a manuscript for the article "Psychiatric disorder among the Yoruba: a report from the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria."

Hiatt, Howard H.

MS-13-86, Box 44, Folder 11
File
1972 - 1975

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Howard H. Hiatt. Also includes the article "A program in mental health in the Harvard School of Public Health" by Morton Beiser and a draft of the Harvard School of Public Health's annual dean's report for 1973-1974

Hill, W. W. "Nibs"

MS-13-86, Box 44, Folder 14
File
1948 - 1950

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about W. W. "Nibs" Hill. Also includes a manuscript for "The inter-university field training program in cultural anthropology."

Heinrich, Max J.

MS-13-86, Box 44, Folder 3
File
1965 - 1968

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Max J. Heinrich. Also includes a summary of Heinrich's studies at Cornell University and a manuscript for "An overview of the Stirling County and related studies."

Henson, Guy

MS-13-86, Box 44, Folder 6
File
1953 - 1971

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Guy Henderson. Also includes a manuscript for "A program of rural development for eastern Nova Scotia" and a booklet titled "Non-utopian democracy and the university."

Johnstone, Kenneth

MS-13-86, Box 45, Folder 17
File
1958 - 1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Kenneth Johnstone. Also includes a manuscript titled "My name is legion, part III: a ten year mental health study in Nova Scotia is completed" by Ken Johnstone.

Kluckhohn, Clyde

MS-13-86, Box 46, Folder 21
File
1937 - 1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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."

Kubota, Shosaku

MS-13-86, Box 46, Folder 29
File
1947 - 1959

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Shosaku Kubota. Also contains manuscripts for articles titled "A glimpse into Sartre's existentialism introduced to Japan" and "Spread of cultural movement to communities in Japan."

Kuna, Ralph

MS-13-86, Box 47, Folder 1
File
1976 - 1980

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Ralph Kuna. Also includes manuscripts for "Cultural stress patterns and the psychopathology of Samuel Clemens" and "Hoodoo: the indigenous medicine and psychiatry of the Black American."

Lee, Henry Desmond

MS-13-86, Box 47, Folder 11
File
1990 - 1991

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Henry Desmond Lee. Also contains a manuscript for chapter 16 of a book.

Kunstadter, Peter

MS-13-86, Box 47, Folder 2
File
1972 - 1974

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Peter Kunstadter. Also contains an addendum to the Rung Sat Community Study.

Ladipo, Olasypo Oyetoro

MS-13-86, Box 47, Folder 4
File
1961 - 1969

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Olasypo Oyetoro Ladipo. Also includes manuscripts for "How to score level of integration/disintegration."

Lambo, Thomas Adeoye "Ade" (continued)

MS-13-86, Box 47, Folder 6
File
1959 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Thomas Adeoye "Ade" Lambo. Also includes schedules and itineraries relating to Lambo's visit to Cornell and an article titled "Mental health in Nigeria: research and its technical problems."

Lane, Anton

MS-13-86, Box 47, Folder 8
File
1972 - 1974

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Anton Lane. Also includes a report on "Beliefs, attitudes, and behavior of lowland Vietnamese."

Maxwell, Robert J.

MS-13-86, Box 49, Folder 16
File
1968

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Robert J. Maxwell. Also contains a manuscript for "A comparison of field research in Canada and in Polynesia."

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