File consists of letters, postcards, greeting cards, air letters, and other correspondence between Jane Murphy and numerous friends and acquaintances in Nigeria.
File contains correspondences between research institutions, embassies, and members of the Nigerian studies regarding work and travel permits for study staff. Also contains Jane Murphy's international driving permit.
File contains correspondence with or about Henry Allen Moe. Also includes information on the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Also includes newspaper clippings.
File contains a draft of Warren Miller's study and several pages of related research notes. Also contains a memo regarding comments and proposed edits to the draft, and a letter to Miller from Laurel Hodgden regarding the study "Psychiatric disorder among the Yoruba."
File contains documents relating to Taintor's study and two drafts of the full study text. Includes mental and physical health surveys and datasets, interview fieldnotes, and statistics and calculations. Also contains a letter from Laurel Hodgden regarding the usability of the data.
File contains correspondence with or about John A. P. Millet. Also includes a draft of the abstract for "Some note on the place of psychiatry in the study of cultural change."
File contains correspondence with or about Neal E. Miller. Also includes a draft for "Do we need a human research decade for cross-cultural studies of mental and physical disease, culture, personality and biology?"
File contains notes, charts, and datasets tracking the occupations and education levels of the husbands of female study respondents. File also includes correspondence between researchers and Aro Hospital regarding education and migration statistics.
File contains correspondence with or about Oskar Diethelms. Also includes notes on telephone conversations with Diethelms and a CV for Arthur Lambert Jones.
File contains research notes on the history of schools and public education in Nigeria. Comparisons are made between British and Nigerian degree systems. File also includes correspondence between researchers and the Nigerian Consulate in New York regarding Nigerian schooling and the place of women therein.
File contains memos and a letter regarding HOS data scores and ABCD ratings of Nigerian data. Also contains pages of coding information and statistical calculations.
File contains correspondence with or about Kenneth Johnstone. Also includes a manuscript titled "My name is legion, part III: a ten year mental health study in Nova Scotia is completed" by Ken Johnstone.
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 correspondence with or about Carl C. Taylor. Also contains manuscripts for "The role of social science in agricultural extension" and "Some principles of human relations that have bearing on extension work."
File contains materials related to the World Health Organization's Expert Committee on Mental Health. Documents include correspondence, conference participant lists and schedules, and drafts of articles and lecture scripts.
File contains correspondence with or about Allan Goldfarb. Also contains a psychiatric study outline, study progress reports and budget outlines, and grant applications.