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Anna and Anders Petterson letters, 1884-1889
- Title
- Anna and Anders Petterson letters, 1884-1889
- Identifier
- P1419
- Date
- 1884-1889
- Description
- "Ephraim Is My Home Now," letters written to the parents of a young minister and his wife who had been sent by the Moravian Church in Germany at the request of the Provincial Elders Conference, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as "suitable" for work among the the Scandinavian members of the Moravian Church in Door County, Wisconsin. Anna was Danish and Anders was Swedish. The letters, translated and edited by a granddaughter, Lucille Petterson, were published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, volume 69, number 3 through volume 70, number 2, 1986-1987.
- Location: 12/A/1
- Extent
- 1 folder
- Type
- Correspondence
Collection
Citation
Petterson, Anna, 1859-1924 and Petterson, Anders, 1858-1938, “Anna and Anders Petterson letters, 1884-1889,” Norwegian American Historical Association, accessed October 17, 2026, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/12101.