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)