https://www.norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/files/original/64066f28ba32bf741adb5ba2b4e6cb8c.jpg 1f9092c1c4bae41974703e37c13f20df PDF Text Text <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Hamline University</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">St. Paul, Minnesota</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Dec. 13, 1921</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Professor O.E. Rølvaag</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">St. Olaf College</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Northfield, Minnesota</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dear Professor Rølvaag:-</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Under separate cover I am sending you a copy of my short article "The Early Norwegian Press in America." I am also asking the Wisconsin Historical Society to send you copies of two articles which I published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History. One is called "The Competition of the Northwestern States for Immigrants." and the other is on "Colonel Hans Christian Heg." I presume that you have my translation of Ole Rynning's "Sandfaerdig Beretning om Amerika," as well as the article on Cleng Peerson and other articles published for the North Start. But if you wish any of these please drop me a line and I will be glad to send them.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">I wish that you would give your support to the idea of making the Minnesota Historical Society a center for the study of the Scandinavian element in this country. The Society already possesses a remarkably good collection of books, pamphlets, and newspapers relating to the Norwegians in the United States, and I hope this collection will be greatly increased before long. I would like very much to see the Luther Theol. [Theological] Seminary turn over to the Society its files of Nordlyset and other early newspapers. I am lecturing on Cleng Peerson at the the Seminary on Jan. 10 and at that time I am going to speak a little about my general plan for assembling at one place a large library of Norwegian-American materials.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sincerely yours,</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Theodore C. Blegen</span></p> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource O.E. Rølvaag Papers (P0584) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context P0584 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rølvaag, O. E. (Ole Edvart), 1876-1931 Description An account of the resource <div class="element-text"> <p><span style="font-family:'-apple-system', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">Ole Edvart Rølvaag was born on April 22, 1876, in Dønna, Norway, and immigrated to the United States in 1896, working as a farmhand in South Dakota before earning a B.A. and M.A. from St. Olaf College, with studies at the University of Christiania in between. From 1906 to 1931, he taught Norwegian language and literature at St. Olaf and wrote novels, essays, and poems depicting the Norwegian-American immigrant experience, including the acclaimed </span><em style="font-family:'-apple-system', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">Giants in the Earth</em><span style="font-family:'-apple-system', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> (1927) and </span><em style="font-family:'-apple-system', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">Peder Victorious</em><span style="font-family:'-apple-system', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> (1929). He helped preserve Norwegian-American culture by co-founding the Society for Norwegian Language and Culture and the Norwegian-American Historical Association, and in 1926 he was knighted by King Haakon VII of Norway.</span></p> <div class="flex flex-col text-sm pb-25"> <div class="text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)"> <div class="[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn"> <div class="z-0 flex min-h-[46px] justify-start"></div> <div class="mt-3 w-full empty:hidden"> <div class="text-center"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pointer-events-none h-px w-px absolute bottom-0"></div> </div> The catalog record for the O.E. Rølvaag Papers can be found online <a href="https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/11038" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>. <p><b>Funding:</b></p> <p><span>Funding to digitize a portion of the O.E. Rølvaag papers 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.</span></p> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context p0584_05433 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. P0584 O.E. Rølvaag Papers (P0584: Theodore C. Blegen Correspondence) O.E. Rølvaag Papers (P0584) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Blegen, Theodore C., 1891-1969 Description An account of the resource Theodore Christian Blegen was an American historian and author. Blegen was the author of numerous historic reference books, papers and articles written over a five decade period. His primary areas of focus were of the history of the state of Minnesota and of Norwegian-American immigration. Theodore C. Blegen, B.A. (1910) Augsburg College, M.A. (1915), Ph.D. (1925) University of Minnesota. Appointed the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 1927 and served as dean of the Graduate School from 1940 until 1960. Theodore C. Blegen was born in Minneapolis on July 16, 1891. He received his bachelor's degree from Augsburg College in 1910 and his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota in 1915 and 1925. Before joining the staff of the University of Minnesota in 1927, Dr. Blegen was a professor of History at Hamline University. He was also the superintendent of the Minnesota Historical Society (1931-1939), president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association (1943), and Director of the National Historical Service Board during World War II (1943-1944). In 1940, Dr. Blegen became Dean of the Graduate School, a position he held until his retirement from the University in 1960. Over his career, Dr. Blegen wrote over 20 books and articles. He died on July 18, 1969. The Theodore C. Blegen Papers (P0819) are housed at NAHA. 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. Theodore Blegen's letter to Ole Rølvaag. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Letters (correspondence) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1921 December 13 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rølvaag, O. E. (Ole Edvart), 1876-1931 Title A name given to the resource Letter from Theodore C Blegen to Ole Rølvaag, 1921 December 13 Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible. [Indicate the cited item here]. O.E. Rølvaag Papers. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota. Text