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Letter from Laurence M. Larson to Ole Rølvaag, 1927 February 28
- Title
- Letter from Laurence M. Larson to Ole Rølvaag, 1927 February 28
- Identifier
- p0584_07472
- Date
- 1927 February 28
- Creator
- Larson, Laurence M., 1868-1943
- Description
- Laurence Larson's letter to Ole Rolvaag.
- 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.
- Laurence Marcellus Larson (September 23, 1868 – March 9, 1938) was a Norwegian born, American educator, historian, writer and translator. His notable works included his translation from Old Norse of Konungs skuggsjá. He studied at Drake University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Larson was appointed to the UW faculty as a Scandinavian languages and history professor on April 17, 1906, but resigned later that year, on June 27. He joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1907 and became history department chair in 1923. Larson continued teaching at UIUC until his September 1937 retirement.
- 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.
Dublin Core
Collection
Citation
Larson, Laurence M., 1868-1943, “Letter from Laurence M. Larson to Ole Rølvaag, 1927 February 28,” Digital Collections, accessed October 3, 2024, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/items/show/4791.