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A list of the Skute II family from Norway from 1709-1794. Family tree of the Skute II family, starting with Tor Olsen Ske and Birgitte Olsdottir. Single document showing the family tree of Skute II over 5 generations.

Includes a photocopied issue of "Free Passage," a quarterly journal from Spring 1980, containing novelist Simon Johnson's short stories, as well as dedications to Norman Voldal and Harold "Bobby" Johnson, and "I Skogen (In the Woods)" a poem by Johnson set to music by Norwegian composer, Sigvart A. Hofland. Also included is another article from "Dakota Arts Quarterly" (Spring 1980) written as a forward by Rodney Nelson, one of the translators of the short stories.
The short stories included in the journal are: "Inga from the Grove," "Jim's Last Day," "From Diggings," "Louis Alfred & John Otto," "The Quarantine."

A seven page letter from Sigurbjorn Stefansson to his unknown brother. Sigurbjorn Stefansson writes to his brother in the US whom he has not heard from in a very long time expecting a response and maybe even a visit. Stefansson is telling his unknown brother of the lives their other brothers and sister live. He tells of his nieces and nephews along with the illnesses that the siblings have. There is hope for being able to hear from the unknown brother and maybe even to see him before Stefansson dies.