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Letter from Ole Rølvaag to Jennie Rølvaag, 1931 March 11
- Title
- Letter from Ole Rølvaag to Jennie Rølvaag, 1931 March 11
- Identifier
- p0584_11777
- p0584_11778
- Date
- 1931 March 11
- Description
- Ole Rolvaag's letter to Jennie Rolvaag.
- Translation:
Thursday
Dear Jennie!
Here comes the latest. This I will send tomorrow with air mail. Take note of when you receive it, so we can see if it goes faster that way. You should get it at the latest Monday afternoon.
Attach this one to the other and give it to Alma when you have read everything.
I have suffered hard lately, and don’t feel so well. But now I will rest until I get more translations from Ager. Then it carries on again.
This evening I am invited to have dinner with Professor Loe. It was him that I wrote to Tulla about, that wanted to have me hold a talk here next year.
It was $72.00 before I had to go out with “income tax”. I have just sent the check. That one I’ve paid from here, so don’t count it in your accounts. It will be a little over $100, then, that I am paying this year.
Awful with these taxes!
The young Newburgers are crazy enough about the old people that they bought a house down here. I both understand it and hear it. Good that I can wash my hands. I neither discouraged them nor convinced them.
But the old people have done good shopping, and the young people should hold their tongues. That’s what I think. They should not disturb the happiness of the two old people. Mrs. N. has always wanted a home, and now she has gotten it. Yes, yes, that’s that.
N. sent his autobiography to Harper’s Magazine and got it back. He has again rewritten it, and now wants to send it to The Mercury. Now he has gotten a very lovely review, but I doubt that it will suit any periodical. There is quite a lot of racial feelings in it, and there should be as well, but it can be that for that reason it will be refused.I am currently looking in Ager’s book. On page 4 you’ll find my piece on Sinclair Lewis. Have sent Carl Sandburg a “marked copy”. Today I got a letter from the editor. He says they have made an excerpt of my piece, and have sent it to the Chicago Daily News. There is always excitement of some kind!
Yes, now I can get my standing on all these weeks- answered letters I have lying around. Here there are many, so many that I have enough to handle a few days.
Now live so well!
The old man
P.S. I am enclosing a letter from Miss Sigurd Boe. It will interest you. It was her that sent that program about “Giants”.
O.E.
- 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.