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Professional Activities: This series includes correspondence, meeting minutes, and reports and evaluations of professional organizations and activities in which Robinson was involved. The materials are arranged in alphabetical order by name of organization because Robinson was often involved at the same time in many organizations. There are no complete files of the many organizations with which Robinson was involved, but rather, Robinson kept materials which showed his involvement in these organizations. Most significant are the records of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Association (ARA). Robinson was president for the year 1956-1957, and was extremely active in the ARA throughout his career. He was instrumental in establishing the Arthritis and Rheumatism Association Journal; the founding of this journal caused a debate within the medical profession as other medical journals feared that the establishment of a journal devoted wholly to arthritis and rheumatism would not be a positive move for a variety of reasons. This debate generated a great deal of correspondence.

There is also material regarding Robinson's participation in conferences at which he lectured. Copies or outlines of these lectures are included as are articles written for the Encyclopedia Americana in 1957 and 1958, and two case studies of Robinson's arthritic and rheumatic patients that seem to have been especially important for Robinson's work.