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Letter from Ole Rølvaag to Jennie Rølvaag, 1931 January 23
- Title
- Letter from Ole Rølvaag to Jennie Rølvaag, 1931 January 23
- Identifier
- p0584_11737
- p0584_11738
- Date
- 1931 January 23
- Description
- Ole Rolvaag's letter to Jennie Rolvaag.
- Translation:
My dear girl!
Although the clock is nearly 12, you must get some words, so that the mailman can take it tomorrow when he comes. He comes early the first time.
Thank you for the letter. It made me feel much better. I was afraid for you all after I read Tulla’s letter.
You don’t need to send more blank checks. Found the checkbook this here day. So far I have not used money from Northfield National.
Decorah-posten I get here now. So that you don’t have to send. But Reform I would like now and then. Wait until you have two or three editions!
Yesterday and today it has been frightfully cold here. It froze this morning. The newspapers predict a freeze tonight as well. These houses down here must be built of stone, or concrete. They are much larger than the houses up in Minnesota. It is for the sake of the huge storms. When they become cold through and through, they are like ice boxes! Both yesterday and today we have burned everything we could find that looked like it could be burned. If it does not get warmer soon, I will soon move southward! I mean: south of here! Tomorrow it is supposed to be good.
Today I got 9 more pages from Ager. I have just finished with them. They are better than the first, but far from alright. These show hope.
Certainly if I do not work. Don’t think I have enough time to go out. And if I do not go, Gab is not on board to go, and then she gets a little sulky because we do not want to go out.
They are then prodigious people despite their housing opportunities. We get along well. Gab has become an exceedingly good over-the-top player. Good grief, how he enjoys himself when he can win against me! We play three games every evening, but never more.
Dorothy and her children are coming Tuesday morning. She is married for the second time- to a “gentile”. They are exceedingly handsome, friendly people.
I am greatly happy about what you tell me about Fritjof. Talk often with him. Kindly and confidentially. Just you two.
Tulla has not yet gotten a decent letter. Good that the mail has not been so large! I have fair energy, and I just can’t afford to be spending my time writing letters!
The last week is one of the best I’ve had since my health broke down. If it only would stay warm!
Well, now it’s 12:20 and I must go to bed. Wish you were here to help me warm up the bed. We’d warm it up all right!
Much love to you all! Greet Tordis for me!
Ole.
- 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.
- Jennie Marie Berdahl was born on June 1, 1879 in Minnehaha County, South Dakota to Andrew James and Karen Oline (Otterness) Berdahl. Jennie was born in a sod hut before South Dakota received statehood. She attended Augustana Academy in Canton, S.D. and was a county school teacher. Jennie Berdahl married Ole Rølvaag in 1908 and lived in Northfield, MN. Together they had four children: Olaf Arnljot (1909-1915) Ella Valborg Tweet (1910-2003) Karl Fritjof (1913-1990) Paul Gunnar (1915-1920).
- Type
- Text
- Format
- Letters (correspondence)
- Contributor
- Rølvaag, Jennie Marie Berdahl
- 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.