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Papers, 1918-1958.

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Correspondence (chiefly 1940-1956) dealing with Mrs. Walters' research for her book, Modern sagas (1953), on Icelandic settlements in North America; writings including several manuscripts, written in Icelandic, by her father, Thorliefur Jóakimsson Jackson; subject files, mostly Icelandic related, including a diary (1884-1887) in Icelandic by an unknown North Dakota pioneer; biographical files on Icelandic Americans; pamphlets; and newspaper clippings. Correspondents include Thomas Dewey, John F. Kennedy, O.B. Burtness, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Lowell Thomas, Margaret Truman, and Gudmundur Grimson. Manuscripts "Leif Ericsson" (19 leaves), "When the American school moved in on the Icelandic pioneers on the Dakota prairie" (10 leaves) typed and carbon, "Christmas in Iceland" (10 leaves), "The hermit of the North Atlantic" (46 leaves), "Highways and byways of Iceland," (22 leaves), "Iceland looks ahead" (5 leaves), "Past and present" (10 leaves), "Iceland, the hermit of the North Atlantic" (9 leaves), "Icelandic athletes" (7 leaves), "The Icelandic colonies in the United States" (31 leaves), "The Icelandic immigrants and Alaska" (8 leaves), "Introducing America to Iceland" (4 leaves), "The land of light and shadow" (8 leaves) original and carbon copy, "Life on and around a frozen lake" (4 leaves), "The long road of the immigrant boy was lighted by his own electrical inventions-Chester Hjortun Thordorson" (7 leaves), "The queen, the poodle, and I" (26 leaves), "Westward-the Vikings" which is comprised of excerpts from "Modern sagas."

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