| 1919-4-14 Letter from Svein Skaar to Allert Solaas (Ltr23) | ||
| From: | Svein Skaar | |
| To: | Allert Solaas | |
| Date: | 1919-4-14 | |
| Translator: | Arne Solaas | |
| Other Svein Skaar Letters |
1919-4-14 (Ltr23) 1919-10-16 (Ltr24) | |
Laxevaag (part of Bergen) 14.04.1919
Dear friend Allert!
As I never get to hear from you, I will once again send you a few words. I can tell that I'm now working here in Bergen, but I live over here on Laxevaag since I have bought myself a house over here, it's so impossible to get a flat in Bergen these days. Now we have several hundreds who can't find a place to live, and people can't marry either, since no apartment can be found for them.
By the way, I don't have any real news to tell, things are, all considered, going quite well. CARL went to America again, and is now a fireman in Seattle, he's quite satisfied with that. I would also like to go back, but no one is permitted to get into America these days, so it will just have to rest.
I can tell that ANDRIAS AARØ died some time ago, so MARIE is now a widow. LAURITZ A. SKAAR is now married, well its nearly a year since that happened so you've probably heard it already. ISAK SKAAR is now a policeman, he finds the job all right. In fact I was a policeman myself as well, but I didn't like it, so I quit. How are you then? You were lucky that you didn't have to join into war service, guess you didn't have neither exercises nor ... [Albert did register for WW I in Dodson] You'll still be striving with your farm and earning lots of money; you should sell and come back home to Norway for a while. I have more or less been waiting for your letter, but I have not heard anything from you.
Could you possibly be so kind and send the pitiful crowns back to me at the earliest opportunity, because I have so high costs with the house, 2500 crowns, which are hard to raise for a regular working man. I had firmly decided to ask you if you could lend me some more in addition (to you outstandings), if you could. You are bound to get money from your father, as he is in a good financial standing since he received 2000 crowns from the insurance after SIGURD died. So maybe you could write a proof either to HANS or me, so that I could have your outstandings.
At the end, a loving greeting from your old friend
Svein Skaar
Skansebakken Bygaard
Laxevaag per Bergen
Norway
I hope you write soon.
Live well.
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