The Robert Hunter McGimsey family papers primarily consist of material documenting his time as a student and faculty member at Centenary College of Louisiana. This includes his Franklin Literary Society certificate (1882), diploma (1882), and a typescript English translation of the Latin text on the diploma. A letter dated 1886 from Thomas Albert Smith Adams, the president of Centenary College of Louisiana, offers McGimsey a job to serve as the college’s professor of mathematics. A photographic negative and print depict Centenary’s campus circa 1890. A description of the college appears in McGimsey’s newspaper article, “Memories of Centenary,” New Orleans Christian Advocate (March 17, 1904). Also included is McGimsey’s mother Louisa Hunter’s 1854 diploma from the Young Ladies Institute (New Orleans, La.) and McGimsey’s wife Alice Matthews’ 1885 diploma from Blue Mountain Female College (Blue Mountain, Miss.).