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Letter from Theodore C Blegen to Ole Rølvaag, 1921 December 13
- Title
- Letter from Theodore C Blegen to Ole Rølvaag, 1921 December 13
- Identifier
- p0584_05433
- Date
- 1921 December 13
- Creator
- Blegen, Theodore C., 1891-1969
- Description
- Theodore Blegen's letter to Ole Rolvaag.
Transcription:Hamline University
St. Paul, Minnesota
Dec. 13, 1921Professor O.E. Rølvaag
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MinnesotaDear Professor Rølvaag:-
Under separate cover I am sending you a copy of my short article "The Early Norwegian Press in America." I am also asking the Wisconsin Historical Society to send you copies of two articles which I published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History. One is called "The Competition of the Northwestern States for Immigrants." and the other is on "Colonel Hans Christian Heg." I presume that you have my translation of Ole Rynning's "Sandfaerdig Beretning om Amerika," as well as the article on Cleng Peerson and other articles published for the North Start. But if you wish any of these please drop me a line and I will be glad to send them.
I wish that you would give your support to the idea of making the Minnesota Historical Society a center for the study of the Scandinavian element in this country. The Society already possesses a remarkably good collection of books, pamphlets, and newspapers relating to the Norwegians in the United States, and I hope this collection will be greatly increased before long. I would like very much to see the Luther Theol. [Theological] Seminary turn over to the Society its files of Nordlyset and other early newspapers. I am lecturing on Cleng Peerson at the the Seminary on Jan. 10 and at that time I am going to speak a little about my general plan for assembling at one place a large library of Norwegian-American materials.
Sincerely yours,
Theodore C. Blegen
- Funding to digitize the O.E. Rølvaag Papers was provided to the Norwegian-American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.
- Theodore Christian Blegen was an American historian and author. Blegen was the author of numerous historic reference books, papers and articles written over a five decade period. His primary areas of focus were of the history of the state of Minnesota and of Norwegian-American immigration.
- Theodore C. Blegen, B.A. (1910) Augsburg College, M.A. (1915), Ph.D. (1925) University of Minnesota. Appointed the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 1927 and served as dean of the Graduate School from 1940 until 1960.
- Theodore C. Blegen was born in Minneapolis on July 16, 1891. He received his bachelor's degree from Augsburg College in 1910 and his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota in 1915 and 1925. Before joining the staff of the University of Minnesota in 1927, Dr. Blegen was a professor of History at Hamline University. He was also the superintendent of the Minnesota Historical Society (1931-1939), president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association (1943), and Director of the National Historical Service Board during World War II (1943-1944). In 1940, Dr. Blegen became Dean of the Graduate School, a position he held until his retirement from the University in 1960. Over his career, Dr. Blegen wrote over 20 books and articles. He died on July 18, 1969.
- The Theodore C. Blegen Papers (P0819) are housed at NAHA.
- Type
- Text
- Format
- Letters (correspondence)
- Contributor
- Rølvaag, O. E. (Ole Edvart), 1876-1931
- Rights
- In Copyright
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- Bibliographic Citation
- [Indicate the cited item here]. O.E. Rølvaag Papers. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota.