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Letter from Ole Rølvaag to Lincoln Colcord, circa 1927 January

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Letter from Ole Rølvaag to Lincoln Colcord, circa 1927 January
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p0584_00692
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circa 1927 January
Description
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.
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.
Ole Rølvaag's letter to Lincoln Colcord.

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Saturday Night

January 1927

Dear Colcord:

I find these words in Deuteronomy 27,17:

“Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.”

Now, isn’t that just made to order! I could have kissed the old bard for writing those words. – And I’ll bless you for putting them into the story. I can’t tell just where they should go in, but I have a feeling that it ought to in that scene where Beret turns loose, at the close of chapter XI. 

There are several references in the Bible. Deuteronomy 19,14; Deuteronomy 27,17; Hosea, 15,10; Proverbs 22,28; Proverbs 23,10; Job 24,3.

I’ve read them all, but the one quoted above is the strongest and most effective.

I have made hardly no changes. Let it go in when you get ready with the division. Shall try to get this on the Sunday mail. 

Hastily

Rølvaag

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Rølvaag, O. E. (Ole Edvart), 1876-1931, “Letter from Ole Rølvaag to Lincoln Colcord, circa 1927 January,” Digital Collections, accessed October 19, 2026, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/items/show/4239.