Theodore C. Blegen Correspondence (O.E. Rølvaag Correspondence)

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Hamline University St. Paul, Minnesota Dec. 13, 1921

Professor O.E. Rølvaag St. Olaf College Northfield, Minnesota

Dear Professor Rølvaag:-

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.

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. 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.