File contains a wide array of communications to and from Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy, ranging from handwritten letters to email printouts. Correspondents seem to include friends, work acquaintances, and residents of Digby County (possible study respondents?).
File contains research, meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, conference schedules, and contact lists relating to a study on chemical herbicide and pesticide use in Vietnam. Also contains 4 colour postcards and 3 photos : b&w; 5 x 7 in.
File contains manuscripts for unpublished papers: "Barriers to the care of mental illness," "Antecedents of the mental health movement in Atlantic Canada : some implications for today," "The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.
File contains an assortment of scripts for lectures between 1983 and 1989. Also contains correspondence, seminar schedules, and a list of included titles.
File contains materials related to the Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology, such as correspondence, meeting minutes, conference materials, brochures, and schedules.
File contains several versions of Alexander Leighton's curricula vitae and biographical notes. Also contains correspondence, article title lists, library request documents, and some of Leighton's published articles.
File contains correspondence with or about Joseph Kern. Also includes the report "Theory and practice in a program of social change," and materials for a psychology course.
File contains correspondence, certificates, forms, email printouts, event programs, and other documents related to Alexander Leighton's academic years.
File contains correspondence with or about Laila Shukry El Hamamsy. Also includes academic records, study participant information, a pamphlet on the American University at Cairo's Social Research Center, a curriculum vitae for Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Aziz El-Meligi.
File consists of offer letters and correspondences between Alexander Leighton and various academic and research institutions regarding professional teaching and research positions.
File contains correspondence with or about Nick Kates. Also includes a photocopy of the article "The Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology: bringing together teachers, researchers and clinicians."
File contains correspondence with or about J. Donald Hatcher. Also includes script for address to the Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine, Franklin M. M. White's schedule and curriculum vitae, and the article "Curriculosclerosis - will medical education change?".
File contains correspondence with or about Erik Essen-Moller. Also contains a handwritten dataset and a nomination for Essen-Moller to the Harvard School of Public Health.
File contains correspondence with or about John A. Clausen. Also contains meeting minutes from the National Advisory Mental Health Council and a copy of an article written by John A. Clausen for the Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, titled "Health and the life course: some personal observations." Also includes an invitation to John A. Clausen's memorials service.