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              <text>Autobiography, pamphlets, and family correspondence of a Norwegian forester who came to Connecticut in 1896 and was educated at Yale University, earning a Master's degree in forestry in 1910. After serving posts in Montana and Idaho he joined the faculty of the Forestry Department at Iowa State University at Ames, where he continued until retirement. Many letters are from members of Jenny Spiechermann Larson's family. She came from Oslo to Connecticut to work as a governess where they met and married in 1911.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Includes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Autobiography (biographical notes). Includes: "Whithersoever I have Roamed," by Julius Ansgar Larsen. ( 1974, 21 p. typescript)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;"Poems of a Forester," by Julius Ansgar Larsen. (28 p. typescript). Includes photo of author, 1970&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Travel diary, 1956&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Letters of Johs. Larson (his brother), 1936&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Letters 1965-1966&lt;/li&gt;
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