File contains correspondence, memoranda, study plans, and analytical reports related to the Foreign Morale Analysis Division. Documents specifically relate to psychological study of Japanese civilians and prisoners of war.
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 correspondence, certificates, forms, email printouts, event programs, and other documents related to Alexander Leighton's academic years.
File contains an 1841 land grant to Isidore Theboult for land in Digby. Also includes correspondence between members of the Hardy family in Massachusetts and Digby, and two newspapers from Massachusetts and Nova Scotia with mentions of the Hardy family.
File contains manuscripts for unpublished papers: "Barriers to the care of mental illness," "Antecedents of the mental health movement in Atlantic Canada : some implications for today," "The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 Leighton's manuscript for an article about making his film "Porpoise Oil"; correspondence with the editors of Movie Makers; a copy of the Movie Makers issue in which his film was given an honorable mention; and a medallion awarded for his film being chosen for screening at the First International Photographic Exhibition.
File contains letters written between friends and colleagues Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton, beginning during the Second World War and continuing until 1951.
Item is a letter written to his father from Alexander Leighton during his residency at Johns Hopkins. The letter addresses his sister Gertrude's mental health and details about equipment for a film project.
File contains a series of letters between Arthur Gale and Alexander Leighton regarding his film "Porpoise Oil." The correspondence includes an announcement of its inclusion as an Honorable Mention by Movie Makers staff in the selection of the Ten Best Non-theatrical Films of 1937, as well as letters about an article Gale commissioned from Leighton about the making of his film. There is also correspondence from 1941 with James Moore at The Amateur Cinema League regarding Alexander Leighton's possible submission of his film about Navajo life, "Work for your Own," for a contest in the Special Class.
File contains correspondence with Adolf Meyer. Also includes summaries of recording instruments, synopses of psychiatric cases, a transcript of "Mental health film," and transcripts of conferences and conversations.
Item is a letter from L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz, responding to a letter written to him by Alexander Leighton suggesting that Baum write a play about Oz.
