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Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds
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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

Merton, Robert "Bob"

File contains correspondence with or about Robert "Bob" Merton. Also includes Merton's review for Alexander Leighton's book "Human relations in a changing world: observations on the use of the social sciences."

Mason, Edward A.

File contains correspondence with or about Edward A. Mason. Also contains the proposals "Some additional notes with regard to the proposal for filming community mental health in action," "A filmed example of a primary prevention program," "Proposal for filming community mental health in action," and a review titled "Navajo, the last red Indians."

Reviews

File consists of reviews of Come Near cut from newspapers and magazines. Also contains correspondence regarding reviews.

Unpublished manuscripts by Alexander Leighton

File contains manuscripts for unpublished papers: "Barriers to the care of mental illness," "Antecedents of the mental health movement in Atlantic Canada : some implications for today," "The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.