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Letter from Ole Rølvaag to Jennie Rølvaag, 1926 July

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Letter from Ole Rølvaag to Jennie Rølvaag, 1926 July
Identifier
p0584_10337
p0584_10338
Date
1926 July
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Translation:

Dear Jennie!

The ladies are just now finishing up, and then I will write some words so that you get them this evening, so you know how we are doing.

They are traveling now, and Fritjof and I will join them to Marcell and get food for next week; it looks like it will rain, but if it rains before we start from Marcell, we will go in to Oakland’s. 

It has been a restless week, but rather fun. I do not know how it will go now when Fritjof and I manage ourselves.

We were going to send some fish and were out trying yesterday afternoon, but had bad luck with us; therefore you won’t get anything. You must forgive our bad luck. 

Have not gotten a word from you since we arrived, but today is the mail, I assume. 

Breakfast is now finished, and therefore I will stop. Hope that next Saturday evening you are in my two arms!

Your boy,

Ole
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.
Ole Rølvaag's letter 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, “Letter from Ole Rølvaag to Jennie Rølvaag, 1926 July,” Digital Collections, accessed October 18, 2026, https://www.norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/items/show/4920.