1From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 21 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
It is related of Augustus Caesar, that being upon his death-bed, he turned just before he expired...
2From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 31 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
I was very glad to receive your Letter of 8. May, and was on the whole well satisfied with the...
3From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 20 June 1814 (Adams Papers)
I received your second Letter, dated 23. May, just as I was coming on board the ship at...
4From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 22 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
Your third Letter, dated 11. June, came to me the day before yesterday Morning, and gave me so...
5From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 12 August 1814 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of 15 July, gives me much pleasure, as it always does to receive a Letter from you;...
It was so long since I had received a Letter from you that I began to be quite impatient; and...
After I had written you in my last Letter that you needed not to answer it, because I expected to...
8From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 6 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
A few days ago, I received your Letter with two dates—the first of 4th: September; and the second...
The last Letter that I wrote you was on the 6th: of this Month, by Mr Shaw—And on Tuesday last I...
10From Abigail Smith Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 25 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have received two very pretty Letters from you, with which I have been much pleased, both with...
11From Antoine Claude Juste de Noailles to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 7 February 1815 (Adams Papers)
AU NOM DU ROI. Nous Ambassadeur de S. M. le Roi de France près S. M. l’Empereur de toutes les...
12From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 6 May 1815 (Adams Papers)
Hence forward I Shall adress you all three at once. Yesterday was one of the happiest days of my...
13From Abigail Smith Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 12 July 1815 (Adams Papers)
A seperate Letter my dear Child is due to you, not only as a reply, to one which you have written...
14From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 1 September 1815 (Adams Papers)
I have received Letters from you all, and you know not how gratifying they have been to my heart....
15From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 11 September 1815 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind Letter of July 26. Your Visit to Mr Clarksons must have been very...
16From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 3 October 1815 (Adams Papers)
Mr John C Gray is to take this letter, & with it my fervent wishes for your happiness, & for that...
17From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 23 October 1815 (Adams Papers)
I have heard much of your progress in French German & Russian but little of your Proficiency in...
18From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 17 November 1815 (Adams Papers)
Your beautiful letter of Sept 11th has given me great pleasure. You are at a very respectable...
19From Abigail Smith Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 28 November 1815 (Adams Papers)
I thank you my dear Grandson for your very pretty Letter, as you cannot have any remembrance of...
20From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 16 December 1815 (Adams Papers)
Your Mama, and I, consent that you shall ask Doctor Nicholes’s permission to come home for the...
21From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 18 December 1815 (Adams Papers)
Your pretty little letter of October 3rd., mongrel as it is, part English, part French, has...
22From Abigail Smith Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 28 March 1816 (Adams Papers)
I must write you a short Letter, least you Should think yourself neglected, as I have written to...
23From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 15 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
you are a frolicksome little fellow; and I delight in your Fun with your School mates as heartily...
24From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 25 June 1816 (Adams Papers)
I give you credit for finding time to write me in London where there are So many Objects to...
25From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 10 August 1816 (Adams Papers)
I see little in this Play but the Manners of the Atheanians and The Naivete et Nettite du Style....
26From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 10 August 1816 (Adams Papers)
Do you See, in these Plays of Terence, which are the Translations from Menander, the Character of...
27From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 28 August 1816 (Adams Papers)
This is Commencement Day, at Harvard Colledge or in more magnificent Language at The University...
28From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 9 September 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have now gone through Terence, and noted a few Lines for you to consider. Many perhaps have...
29From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 21 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
I now hope to see you, after 8 years Absence. I cannot write you a formal Letter. You have a kind...
Your papa was much pleased with your Letter as it was very prettily written and the style was...
31From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 14 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
A very few days after my arrival in this City, I received your Letter of 19. September, the...
As Mr. Pope is so good as to offer to convey your skates to Boston I have siezed the opportunity...
I will begin my letter, by offerering the joint congratulations of your father and myself, to you...
34From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 19 January 1818 (Adams Papers)
Your new-years day Letter was received with much pleasure. I had heard something before, about...
Your Letter gave me much pleasure though I thought I perceived some few marks of carelessness and...
I am much gratified to learn that you have made an agreeable acquaintance, and still more that...
Your two last Letters have come safely to hand and I am much pleased at your steadiness and...
The observations which you make in your Letter to me of the 29 March on the Books you have been...
Is it because I have not answered your last Letter my dear Charles that you have not written to...
You tell me in your last Letter that “you believe you did not write to me, because you had not...
I could almost wish your Letters were filled with observations on any other books than Novels...
42From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 30 November 1818 (Adams Papers)
Your dear Mother not long since received a Letter from you, in which I read with great pleasure,...
As I hear there has been a great fall of snow during the last week or two in Boston I suppose you...
You Letter was brought two days since, and I should have received it with the same pleasure your...
I was delighted with your Letter and was only sorry you did not mention your health, which I...
I have just received your little and your big Letter, and return you many thanks for both, which...
The character you give of your friend Dawes is so pleasing, that I am much rejoiced at your...
In yours of the 4th & 7th you tell me that you had taken a fresh cold but that it was nearly...
Well, Charles, how comes on the file? is yours as big as John’s? are your walks so delightful you...
Why what is the matter my Son? surely when you wrote your last Letter you must have been...