1961 - 1963 comparisons of ABCD distributions and RIDITs
- MS-13-86, Box 16, Folder 9
- File
File consists of correspondence between Jane Murphy and Veronica Shaw (?) on the subject of ABCD distributions in Yoruba data.
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1961 Nigerian HOS analysis (pertinent to 1961 - 1963 comparison)
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 12
- File
- 1964
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.
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 5
- File
- 1962 - 1963
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.
- MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 3
- File
- 1964
File consists of analysis charts and tables for village age, enlightenment, and integration data. Also includes a telegram regarding villages studied.
- MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 1
- File
- 1931 - 1933
File is loosely organized into two sections: Nova Scotia beaver and Norway beaver. Both sections contain correspondence to and from government officials, biologists, academics, and industry consultants regarding research for and publication of Alexander Leighton's study on beaver mental characteristics. The Norway section also contains excerpts from Norwegian newspapers. There is also a set of handwritten notes titled "Outline for study of the Beaver: D. Cross & A.H. Leighton."
Coding problems regarding cards 26, 27
- MS-13-86, Box 18, Folder 15
- File
- [1965?]
File contains computer dataset printouts. Also includes correspondence regarding corrections to be made on data cards 26 and 27 for the study on the role of women.
Communications and correspondence regarding Vietnam study
- MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 5
- File
- 1972
File contains summaries of phone conversations, letters, and reports between Alexander Leighton, Terry Rambo/Rambeau, Samuel Popkin, Philip Ross, Jerry Tinker, and Gerald Tinker regarding the psychological study in Vietnam.
Correspondence between Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton
- MS-13-86, Box 48, Folder 2
- File
- 1943 - 1951
File contains letters written between friends and colleagues Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton, beginning during the Second World War and continuing until 1951.
Correspondence regarding Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology
- MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 25
- File
- 1976 - 1984
File contains correspondence between Alexander Leighton and several different hospitals, clinics, universities, research institutions, and psychiatric associations regarding the development of psychiatric epidemiology programming.
Correspondence with Adolf Meyer
- MS-13-86, Box 50, Folder 13
- File
- 1937 - 1965
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.
Correspondence with anthropologists, 1937 - 1939
- MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 2
- File
- 1937 - 1939
File consists of letters between Alexander Leighton and anthropologists and psychiatrists at various universities and hospitals.
Discussion of Aaron Karush's paper "People who seek help : a diagnostic survey"
- MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 7
- File
- 1955 - 1956
File contains scripts for a discussion held at a conference. File also includes letter regarding the conference and the publication of the discussion.
Documents from the 1960 Nigerian research planning workshop
- MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 10
- File
- 1959 - 1961
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.
Effect of culture and cultural patterns
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 1
- File
- 1961
File contains notes on village data, socioeconomic information, and psychiatric symptom statistics. File also includes a letter to Alex (Leighton?) from Ray (?) on the subject of sampling techniques and a further study on the role of physical depletions in the etiology of Yoruba psychiatric disturbances.
- MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 17
- File
- 1966
File consists of a letter from Robert Edgerton of the University of California to Jane Murphy regarding publication of her paper "Eskimo and Yoruba women: cross-cultural studies of psychopathology."
Financial report - work sheets
- MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 3
- File
- 1963 - 1967
File contains expense lists and financial documents and reports for the Social Science Research Council regarding the Role of Women study.
Homosexuality / by Thomas A. C. Rennie
- MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 15
- File
- 1953
File contains a manuscript for a conference paper. File also contains letters regarding the editing and publication of the paper.
HOS coding and scoring for rural and urban women
- MS-13-86, Box 16, Folder 5
- File
- [196-]
File contains HOS calculations, a copy of a psychiatric questionnaire, and HOS source card with marginals. Also includes correspondence between Alice Longaker, Veronica Shaw, Laurel Hodgden, and Jane Murphy discussing coding and psychiatric data.
Information on respondents' husbands' occupation and education
- MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 10
- File
- 1960 - 1964
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.
Introduction for Thomas Ling's book
- MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 12
- File
- 1953 - 1954
File contains a manuscript for the introduction to Thomas Ling's book, "Mental Health and Human Relations in Industry." File also contains correspondence with Thomas Ling and publishers regarding the introduction.
Jane Murphy's correspondence and thank-you letters to Nigeria
- MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 4
- File
- 1961 - 1963
File consists of letters, postcards, greeting cards, air letters, and other correspondence between Jane Murphy and numerous friends and acquaintances in Nigeria.
Jane Murphy's correspondence with Nigerians
- MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 1
- File
- 1961 - 1967
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.
Logistics, visas, customs, and money in Nigeria
- MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 2
- File
- 1963
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.
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 5
- File
- [1961?]
File contains notes on psychiatric symptoms and diseases present in Nigerian respondents, and on the respondents' beliefs regarding illness. Also contains notes between researchers sharing thoughts and findings. File also includes Jane Murphy's field notes from discussions of disease with respondents. File also contains a copy of the study "The psychiatric examination of native African patients" by Edward L. Margetts.
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 18
- File
- 1961 - 1965
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.
Notes on academic degrees and education in Nigeria
- MS-13-86, Box 8, Folder 8
- File
- 1964
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.
- MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 2
- File
- 1961
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.
Our peace / Price of peace / by Alexander H. Leighton
- MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 4
- File
- 1943 - 1947
File contains three manuscripts: "Price of peace," "Our peace," and "An immediate task for an institute of ethnic democracy," and related correspondence.
Respondents' resistance to interviews
- MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 2
- File
- 1961
File contains notes on respondents who showed resistance during their interviews. Resisters' responses, actions, and symptoms are listed. File also includes letters between Alexander Leighton and Veronica Shaw discussing how to process resisters' interviews and comparing psychiatrists' evaluations of their responses.
Reviews of Nigeria study publications
- MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 9
- File
- 1961 - 1965
File contains clippings, periodicals, and correspondence regarding reviews of Alexander Leighton's book "Psychiatric Disorder among the Yoruba."
Reviews of Stirling County Study publications
- MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 8
- File
- 1960 - 1966
File consists of clippings, periodicals, and correspondence regarding reviews of Alexander Leighton's published works on the Stirling County Study.
Rin - Chinese women cross-cultural comparisons
- MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 22
- File
- 1966
File contains a copy of the study "Psychophysiological reactions of a rural and suburban population in Taiwan" by Hsien Rin, Hung-Ming Chu, and Tsung-Yi Ling. Also contains correspondence between Hsien Rin and Jane Murphy and notes and data tables on modernization rates and number of children among respondents.
- MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 10
- File
- 1971
File contains a letter and research proposal for "Control and prevention of psychiatric disorders in community populations" by Alexander Leighton, and a report by D. Shapiro.
The Indiana 101 simulator for psychiatric symptoms and social factors analysis
- MS-13-86, Box 6, Folder 11
- File
- 1964 - 1965
File contains documents relating to the attemped Indiana IBM 101 simulator project for analyzing psychiatric symptoms and social factors. Includes communications between Jane Murphy, Veronica Shaw, and Grafton Trout of the Indiana University International Development Centre. Also includes IBM simulator dataset printouts and notes and memoranda regarding data migration processes. The project was never used.
- MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 3
- File
- 1946 - 1947
File contains a manuscript for an article and correspondence regarding the article's editing and publication.
Unpublished manuscripts by Alexander Leighton
- MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 4
- File
- 1980 - 2013
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.
Uses of psychophysiological measures in cross-cultural psychiatric surveys / by Warren B. Miller
- MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 4
- File
- 1962 - 1963
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."