Letter: Harold Jones to Mary Elva (Stilwell) Jones, 25 Jan 1921

While sorting through a bookcase as part of my project to photograph family heirlooms and keepsakes, I was looking through the set of Harvard Classics that came from the John R. Jones home in Hankinson, North Dakota and came across a letter tucked into Volume 1, marking a place in the "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin."

Mary Elva (Stilwell) Jones in her home in Hankinson

Harold Morris Jones as a youth

Volume 1 of the set of Harvard Classics from the Jones home

The letter is from Harold Morris Jones to his mother, Mary Elva (Stilwell) Jones.  It was written from Northfield, Minnesota, where he was attending Carleton College, and is dated Jan. 25, 1921. 
Here is the letter:

Transcription:

"Northfield     Jan. 25 _ 21
Dear Mother:
   Just a line or two before I go to a conference with my history instructor.
   Do you mind if I bring my room - mate home to spend the week-end?  I expect to arrive home Friday eve and will bring my laundry at that time.
   Nothing to do between now and then but prepare for and take four exams.
             As Ever
                       Harold"

Harold graduated from Carleton College in 1921.