Z 1292.000
OTKEN (FRANCES POWELL) PAPERS


Frances Powell Otken, of McComb, was the youngest daughter of Charles Otken and Emily Jane Lee Otken of Summit. Her collection includes:

  • correspondence, July 22, 1811–September 2, 1960 (folders 1–9)
  • notes by Charles Otken (folder 20)
  • writings concerning various aspects of education by Charles Otken (folder 21)
  • diary of Charles Otken, September 1, 1906–January 21, 1907 (folder 22)
  • writings concerning the church (folder 23)
  • a statement by Charles Otken concerning atonement (folder 24)
  • The Huguenot, a publication by the Huguenot Society, 1929 (folder 25)
  • medical journals, July, 1917, and July, 1930 (folder 26)
  • an address by Dr. O. B. Quin at the graduating exercise of the McComb City Hospital, September 26, 1913 (folder 27)
  • speeches by members of the Mississippi House of Representatives, John S. Williams and W. F. Love, and of the Senate, Hernando Money and James Gordon, 1898–1909 (folder 28)
  • Carry On, a magazine on the reconstruction of disabled soldiers and sailors, June–November, 1918 (folder 29)
  • various magazines, 1913–1926 (folder 30)
  • "Macaulay's Essays," 1880 (folder 31)
  • printed material concerning opera, 1925–1927 (folder 32)
  • printed material concerning Mark Twain, 1911–1912 (folder 33)
  • printed material concerning flags of all nations, 1910 and 1931(folder 34)
  • printed material concerning shorthand (folder 35)
  • material concerning Richard Curtis, the first Baptist preacher in Mississippi (folder 36)
  • printed material concerning the South and the National Government (folder 37)
  • printed material concerning the purchase of books, 1947–1954 (folder 38)
  • printed material concerning local history and genealogy (folder 39–40)
  • locks of Otken family hair (folder 41)
  • miscellaneous material (folder 42)
  • cards (folder 43)
  • photographs (folder 44)
  • invitations (folder 45)
  • sermons and printed material concerning the First Baptist Church, McComb, 1907–1910 (folder 46)
  • a tribute for Charles Otken, February 12, 1911 (folder 47)
  • an address delivered by Miss Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Historian General of the U.D.C., October 22, 1915 (folder 48)
  • a social register of Jackson, 1951 (folder 49)
  • a list of historic houses and inhabited castles issued by the British Travel Centre (folder 50)
  • poems (folders 51–53)
  • photographs of Lookout Mountain, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge (folder 54)
  • printed material concerning school laws of Mississippi and education, 1900–1930 (box 10)
  • yearbooks and magazines of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Confederate Veteran magazines, 1899–1926 (box 11)
  • printed material related to church studies (box 12)
  • printed material concerning tours (box 13)
  • stenographers notebooks and various printed material (boxes 14–15)
  • news clippings (folders 55–68)
  • newspapers and clippings (boxes 19–25)
  • hymn books and music sheets (boxes 26–33)