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(Ole Edvart), 1876-1931 Description An account of the resource <div class="element-text"> 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 Giants in the Earth (1927) and Peder Victorious (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. <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>. Funding: 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. 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_11308 p0584_11309 p0584_11310 p0584_11311 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. P0584 O.E. Rølvaag Papers (P0584: Nora Solum Correspondence) O.E. Rølvaag Papers (P0584) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rølvaag, O. E. (Ole Edvart), 1876-1931 Description An account of the resource Transcription: New Year’s Day 1930 Dear Mrs. Nora! Your letter came today, and it is the first letter I received in the year of our Lord 1930. I read it, and then I used the backside of your envelope to arrange (outline) a speech that I held in the afternoon before the Tourist Club of Biloxi. There must have been luck in it- I mean the letter, because the audience thanked me with a standing ovation. Regarding speeches: it was beautifully said by your friends who heard me that evening at the Hirsch Center. The truth is that evening I spoke quite poorly. It was the worst speech I held on the whole trip, I know that very well myself. If only they had heard me the next afternoon, because I did well then. Now then: here is the swear to a sincerely good New Year! Your letter made me agitated. I do not like this amalgamation of Malmen-Spohn, I mean, her I could never like. Spohn, on the other hand, I cannot believe anything evil about. He has always spoken about you in the highest tones. He has always praised you. I want to begin the new year by thinking well of my companions. Presumably there are nothing other than good intentions behind the plan, given it looks genuine to invite a person on vacation in the middle of the year, and that for a while nothing has been said about it before. It can then be of consideration to your health. If your health is somewhat normal, I will say no thank you, and thanks for the good offer! Therefore I wanted to turn around and say: I will gladly take that vacation next year. My most sincere and most upright advice is that you take counsel with the president. He has many faults, but he can also see the human in a situation as clearly as any person I have known. If you can speak fully with him; I don’t think he will violate your confidence. If I was less worried for you, I would not give this advice so earnestly. Now, I have not read Hans Frost. We have the apartment full of books; little gets read; I am too lethargic even to read. I have gotten a foot on Preface to Morals (it is in the library at St. Olaf) and it is quite good- in the same respect. You should read it. I have bronchitis still, but I am much better. The cough has given up; the fever has left my body; now it’s just the fatigue that remains. This Tourist Club that I have spoken to today, is an unusual organization. Old men and even older ladies. Tonight they were going to have a dance, and tomorrow night a card party. Can you beat it? I saw nobody I was dying to dance with; therefore I said no thank you to the invitation. But I will send the wife next time! And then I wanted to go and see what it’s like. Yes, there are a lot of strange things to see here. I had one advantage from going there today then: I met many people from the West, some from Osakis, some up from Fergus Falls, and a few from Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Most of them were from Illinois, then. Sickly people, the majority of them. It would be more than lovely of you if you would hold me informed about what you decide to do next semester. And here is another thing you must do: Send me the bill for what you have paid Miss Røisum for the grouping. That bill is mine, and not yours. Should you decide to leaving St. Olaf next semester, I know you will need the money. Besides, it doesn’t have anything to do with the bill. I have read all the reminiscences of The Messenger. If I’m not mistaken, the next half a year up there will be an uneasy year. I think I can notice it. I hope that I am incorrect. Have you gotten to talk to Olani Helgen? He is a gifted boy, but a big imbecile. I wonder how he took the reprimand the president gave him? And how is Bjørk doing? – – No, I do not yearn back for the leadership and hubbub up there; I am actually sincerely happy to be free of it; but I cannot stop thinking about many things. Since yours was the first letter I got this year, this is the first I have written. You may therefore mark it! If you write again, I will answer at once! The rest of the page I will leave to my wife. Your old friend and fellow servant O.E. Rølvaag There is space enough left only to wish you a Happy New Year- which I do with all my heart, and hope it may bring you all that you wish, in health, joy and hopes realized- what more can I wish you? Some day I shall write more. Very sincerely, Jennie Rølvaag <pre class="a-b-r-La"></pre> 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 Nora Solum. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 January 1 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource No Copyright - the United States http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Letters (correspondence) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Solum, Nora Title A name given to the resource Letter from Ole Rølvaag to Nora Solum, 1930 January 1 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