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Dalhousie University Archives 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

Fejos, Paul

File contains correspondence with or about Paul Fejos. Also includes a proposal for "The value of photography in social research," and a program for the Conference on Medicine and Anthropology.

Ford Foundation proposal

File contains correspondence regarding grants from the Ford Foundation for collaborative study between Harvard and the University of Ibadan. Also includes "Proposal for a program of research in mental health and mental illness."

Fryer, E. R.

File contains correspondence with or about E. R. Fryer. Also contains a proposal for "A proposed training program for point four workers in the American southwest."

Institute of Ethnic Affairs

File contains correspondence with individuals in the Institute of Ethnic Affairs. Also includes meeting minutes, a newsletter, and an information pamphlet about the Institute. Also contains proposals for "The Institute for Racial Democracy" and "The Spanish Speaking People in the United States."

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."

McHarg, Ian L.

File contains correspondence with or about Ian L. McHarg. Also contains a proposal titled "Toward a center for health and social policy: applicable resources and possibilities at the University of Pennsylvania."

Ottawa file

File contains correspondence regarding grant applications and proposals. Also contains completed applications and a proposal for "A program for community development in Digby County, Nova Scotia."

Personality tests and psychoneurotic screening

File contains preliminary research plans, a seminar report on psychological testing, a multiphase personality inventory, and an excerpt on psychoneurotic screening in the Army, all written or originating with M.L. Kohn (1928-2021), who may have been a graduate or post-doctoral student at Cornell, working under Alexander Leighton.

Psychiatric evaluation procedure

File consists of a research proposal by Bruce Dohrenwend titled "Considerations which enter into the formulation of a research design for determining the effect of sociocultural factors on the psychiatric evaluation procedure."
Research plan / M.L. Kohn

Research plan / M.L. Kohn

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?"
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