File contains correspondence with or about Herbert M. Davy. Also contains manuscripts for Davy's articles and reports titled "Notes concerning the Digby Municipal Home: its past and present functions and its possible future place in the community," "The interplay between religion viewed as a community and a personal sentiment," "Report on the psychiatric clinic serving western Nova Scotia for the year 1957," and "Suggestions regarding future policy and research plans for the western Nova Scotia clinic."
File contains newspaper clippings related to various subjects, including Dalhousie University. File includes the issue of October 1975 of the University of Toronto Graduate periodical.
File contains documents relating to Alexander Leighton's 1959 trip to Nigeria. Includes a photograph, several bundles of research notes, schedules, graphic materials, and patient medical notes. Includes an article from the New York Times on the Nigerian election, and no. 10 of the Western Nigerian Illustrated quarterly publication featuring an article about psychiatric treatment at the Aro Hospital. Also includes an envelope labelled 'thought disorder pills' containing five spherical pills.
File contains an 8-page stapled publication of the New York Hosptial Cornell Medical Centre's bimonthly newsletter. Features an article about Alexander Leighton's Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project.
Files contains documents relating to the film "Mental Health Research in Nigeria" that was filmed during the 1961 Cornell-Aro study. Included are memos discussing the film's production and release, notes on filming scenes, a brochure for Cornell's program in social psychiatry, film production and narration notes, comments from researchers, and letters between researchers, librarians, and contacts in the Nigerian government. File also includes a publication called "African film bibliography 1965" by the Committee of Fine Arts and the Humanities of the African Studies Association.
File contains Alexander Leighton's curriculum vitae and lists of Leighton's works in library catalogues. Also includes reprints of Leighton's articles "The Stirling County Study: some notes on concepts and methods" and "From the point of view of social psychiatry."
