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Postcard from Ole Rølvaag to Jennie Rølvaag, 1918 July 10

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Postcard from Ole Rølvaag to Jennie Rølvaag, 1918 July 10
Identifier
p0584_11711
p0584_11712
Date
1918 July 10
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Translation: 

Have you gone to bed yet? And the children? And the little boy? How is his finger doing?

It will not be carried northward before Wednesday next week. Don’t have time to write tonight. Will write a little letter to you tomorrow evening. 

Have thought so much about you and the little boy today. Hope to hear from you tomorrow. Just send me a card when you have time to write a letter. I will manage with a card- under the same circumstances.

Yours

O.E.R.
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).
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.
Postcard from Ole Rølvaag to Jennie Rølvaag.
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Bibliographic Citation
[Indicate the cited item here]. O.E. Rølvaag Papers. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota.

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Rølvaag, O. E. (Ole Edvart), 1876-1931, “Postcard from Ole Rølvaag to Jennie Rølvaag, 1918 July 10,” Digital Collections, accessed October 19, 2026, https://www.norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/items/show/4879.