Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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...