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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

Unpublished manuscripts by Alexander Leighton

File contains manuscripts for unpublished papers: "Barriers to the care of mental illness," "Antecedents of the mental health movement in Atlantic Canada : some implications for today," "The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

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."

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."

Reviews

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

Clippings regarding the LGBT community and the local arts community

File contains clippings collected by Ross Boutilier relating to intersections between the LGBT and arts communities in Halifax. File consists of reviews on the theatre productions of the "Hanging garden"; "Angels among us" and "Lion in the winter". Also included are articles on female impersonator Laura Smith and musician Ashley MacIsaac.

Closed doors and bridge crossing : spatial connections in Catherine Banks' Bone Cage / by Reina Green : [conference presentation]

File contains a copy of the article "Closed Doors and Bridge Crossing : Spatial Connections in Catherine Banks' Bone Cage" presented by Dr. Reina Green (Associate Professor of English, Mount Saint Vincent University) at the 2012 Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR/ACRT) conference in Waterloo, ON, 26-29 May 2012.

I Ain't Dead Yet — Mermaid Theatre original production

File includes correspondence, notes, manuscripts, a contract, evaluations forms, reviews and a chronology outlining the project from its conception as "Grandmother's Story" through to Christopher Heide's residency at Mermaid Theatre and the company's workshop production of "I Ain't Dead Yet."

I Ain't Dead Yet — Catalyst

File includes correspondence, notes, manuscript, a contract, and program for the play's 1986 production by Catalyst Theatre in Edmonton, AB.
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