Archives Catalogue

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

Jane Murphy's correspondence with Nigerians

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1961 - 1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File largely consists of copies of Jane Murphy's outgoing correspondence. Also contains some original incoming letters and one outgoing letter by Charles C. Hughes.

Documents from the 1960 Nigerian research planning workshop

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 10
File
1959 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memos, letters, and conference discussion notes for a task force meeting for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project. Also includes a sociocultural considerations handbook by Charles C. Hughes.

Notes on data sampling considerations in Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 11
File
1959 - 1960

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains guidelines and suggestions for selecting diverse and unbiased data samples and determining the value of data collected.

Field research schedules

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 13
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of monthly calendars used to schedule aspects of fieldwork for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project.

Personnel files for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 14
File
[between 1959 and 1961]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of contact and background information forms for Nigerian project personnel.

Orike names given to the research team

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 15
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a list of researchers' names alongside their Yoruba Orike/Oríkì names.

Practice social data questionnaire for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 16
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains one copy of the final fourth draft of the social data questionnaire for community respondents. Questionnaire is in both English and Yoruba and has been completed by an individual subject.

Drafts of social data and psychiatric questionnaires for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 17
File
1957 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains early drafts of the community respondent social data and psychiatric questionnaires and a survery from Aro Hospital concerning displaced and detribalised people. Also contains a memo justifying the questions used and an appendix containing a blank copy of the final draft of the questionnaire.

Research grant application for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1959

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research grant application submitted to the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to request funding for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in Nigeria.

Outline of memos on Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 3
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains index of memos published on the Cornell-Aro study, listed by topic.

Memos on the organization and filing of data for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 4
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of two memos containing an index of Nigerian research materials and suggestions for their organization and storage.

Progress report for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 5
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an interim progress report for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project with reference to the National Institute of Health grant M-4506.

The pulse, vol. XXIII, no. 4

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 6
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Speech by Alexander Leighton upon arrival in Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 7
File
[1960?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an English-Yoruba script for a speech delivered by Alexander Leighton upon his arrival in Nigeria.

1959 trip to Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 8
File
1959

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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.

Documents from Charles C. Hughes to aid in setting up 1961 Nigerian study

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 9
File
1959 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memos from Charles C. Hughes to Alexander Leighton, Jane Murphy, and other members of the Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry concerning past research projects and studies. Also contains copies of outgoing letters from Charles C. Hughes to Mr. Okunbeyi of the Nigerian government and Dr. Lambo of Aro Hospital discussing the possibility of a research project in Nigeria.

Coding categories for fieldnotes

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 1
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a list of coding categories for data in the 1961 Cornell-Aro study.

Marginal frequencies of social data from psychiatric questionnaires

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 10
File
1961 - 1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memoranda regarding updates to marginal frequencies in the Cornell-Aro study, based on the 415 respondents.

Occupation data for rural Yoruba sample

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 11
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes and lists of Cornell-Aro study respondents' occupations. Also includes memoranda and notes on coding categories for occupational data and relevant ethnographic background information.

Demographic data on hospital patients

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 12
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of notes on the socioeconomic and demographic data of hospital patients.

Demographic data on Abeokuta residents

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 13
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of notes on the socioeconomic and demographic data of Abeokuta residents.

Reliability analysis between psychiatrists

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 14
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an appendix (Appendix F) outlining procedures in comparing psychiatric evaluators' thought processes and conclusions surrounding the mental health of respondents of the Cornell-Aro study. File also includes information on analysis coding and a chart outlining mental health symptom statistics.

Psychiatric symptom patterns and disorders

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 15
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memoranda on psychiatric statistics and analyses and a guidebook for symptom evaluation information card coding. File also includes notes on psychiatric findings.

Combinations of major symptom patterns

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 16
File
1961 - 1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes and charts on the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms and disorders and combinations of patterns in study respondents.

Miscellaneous analyses regarding psychiatric symptoms

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 17
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of notes on psychiatric conditions and symptoms found in Cornell-Aro study respondents. Data tables and analytical explanations accompany datasets and evaluations.

Western material style of life from social science samples

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 18
File
1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of computer dataset printouts of material lifestyle statistics among the Yoruba people.

Notes on coding

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 2
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on data processing and coding, medical findings, and psychiatric social data. Also includes correspondence between Dorothea Leighton and Alice Longaker regarding coding process and classification procedures.

Social data card corrections

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 3
File
1961 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on coding and writing corrections to be made to social data questionnaire cards.

Considerations and proposals regarding indicators of sociocultural disintegration in the Egba setting / by Charles C. Hughes

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 4
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a second draft of the handbook by Charles C. Hughes written as part of the Cornell-Aro study. File also contains a page of notes on indicators of disintegration.

David Macklin's notes on social science questionnaire data analysis

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 5
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of notes on respondents' answers to the social data questionnaire, including statistics and thoughts on card organization and indices.

Mental health of native healers in 1961 sample

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 6
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a page of notes on mental health statistics for native healers of the study villages in Nigeria.

Notes and marginals on social science questionnaire data

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 7
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on respondents' answers to the social science data questionnaire. Answers are compiled by question and percentages and coding notes are included.

List of individuals sampled and not interviewed

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 8
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memoranda regarding the numbers of sampled and interviewed respondents for the Cornell-Aro study. Totals are listed and respondents are organized by village.

Frequency analysis of psychiatric disorders by social variables (corrected copy of SP #40)

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 9
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File includes statistics on the socioeconomic statuses of Cornell-Aro study respondents and information for the psychiatrist's random sampling results.

Reviews of Nigeria study publications