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Letter from Ole Rølvaag to Jennie Rølvaag, 1927
- Title
- Letter from Ole Rølvaag to Jennie Rølvaag, 1927
- Identifier
- p0584_10341
- Date
- 1927
- Description
- Ole Rolvaag's letter to Jennie Rolvaag.
- Translation:
Dear “old woman”!
Well, here I am. It’s been a rough day, and won’t be any better for the next two days. But Saturday midday I will be finished for the time being. I will come to supper at 5 o’clock sharp. It’s possible that I must go down again next week. As of yet they have not found anything besides “high blood pressure”, but it is much too high.
Today they have gone over me externally. The next two days will be “internal”. To judge from what they have found so far, there’s nothing exactly disturbing.
I am going to leave with my stomach 7 o’clock tomorrow morning.
Best,
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.