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Letter from Lincoln Colcord to Ole Rølvaag, 1926 April
- Title
- Letter from Lincoln Colcord to Ole Rølvaag, 1926 April
- Identifier
- p0584_00593
- p0584_00594
- Date
- 1926 April
- Creator
- Colcord, Lincoln, 1883-1947
- Description
- Lincoln Colcord's letter to Ole Rolvaag.
Transcription:Dear friend: –
It is wonderful! – All ? that I expected to find. But oh, that translation – There is longing for murder of the flesh. Out no ? of penalty for murdering a child of the [word] – [word] strangely enough, parts of the translation are very good – the first section is the worst –
I shall have to calm down and bring the manuscript, it is necessary that I talk it over – are you at liberty Friday afternoon; or would Sat. be better? I cannot stay overnight; let us just concentrate for a few hours over the talk in hand –
And don’t be discouraged about the translation. It can be made all right –
Oh, but Per Hansa and Beret are great characters!
Lincoln Colcord
- 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.
- Lincoln Ross Colcord (August 14, 1883 – November 16, 1947) was an American journalist and author of short fiction. He wrote for a number of American newspapers and magazines beginning in 1908, and throughout the Woodrow Wilson presidency (1913–1921). Colcord helped translate Giants in the Earth.
- Type
- Text
- Format
- Letters (correspondence)
- Contributor
- Rølvaag, O. E. (Ole Edvart), 1876-1931
- Rights
- No Copyright - the United States
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- Bibliographic Citation
- [Indicate the cited item here]. O.E. Rølvaag Papers. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota.