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Per Hagen memoir, circa 1901
- Title
- Per Hagen memoir, circa 1901
- Identifier
- P1641
- Date
- circa 1901
- Creator
- Hagen, Per, 1821-1900
- Description
- Photocopy of a manuscript memoir in the Green Bay division of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, "En del af Per Hagens vandring."
"A memoir in fictional form written by one Per Peterson from Tvedestrand in the early 1890s and telling of the author's childhood in Norway, his life at sea, his years as a farmer and prosperous businessman in Brown and Door counties, Wisconsin, and finally his return to Tvedestrand as an old man…A slightly different version of the text" was published in 1901 in the Tvdestransposten.
The memoir has 120 pages, a copy of the newspaper version 26 p.; A translation of the memoir (with certain complimentary passages from the newspaper version) translated with introduction and notes by Kate Stafford and Harald Naess, was published as On both sides of the ocean, a part of Per Hagen's journey in 1984 by NAHA as volume X in its Travel and description series. - Extent
- 1 folder
- Type
- Manuscripts
Citation
Hagen, Per, 1821-1900, “Per Hagen memoir, circa 1901,” Norwegian-American Historical Association, accessed September 20, 2024, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/10924.