Just returned from Virginia about 2 hours ago, I hasten to answer your Letter which your father...
52From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 12 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
I am much pleased with your frankness in relating the manners and customs of your School—talking...
It is a long time since I wrote you as I have again been very sick and utterly unable to put pen...
Your Letter my Dear Charles would cause me considerable uneasiness did I not know that you have...
I enclose you a Letter from one of your young correspondents which was received a few days after...
In answer to your last Letter I can only say that I regret as much as you do the precipitation...
Your two last Letters would have given me much pleasure if they had been more easy to decypher...
Your Letter full of complaints my dear Charles reached me yesterday and I am sorry to see you...
Your Shandean Letter is received with all its apologies and few amendments I will only say that...
You reproach me without a cause and I dare say you got your Letter the very day after you...
What sort of a Letter was your last and how is it to be answered? to be angry with you is...
Your last Letter my dear Charles quite revived my spirits as it re-assured me concerning yours...
We yesterday went fishing for the first time and to my great astonishment on looking up our...
Poor Mariano is dead. On Sunday Even’—he was sitting reading the new Tragedy of Lord Byron when...
I congratulate you upon the recovery of your spirits; and I do not know what to say about Langdon...
Your Letter my caused me a mixture of feelings some pleasing some painful the latter because...
Regularity and method are so essential to the acquisition of real knowledge that the little...
When I left you I did not think you were so soon to assume the sacerdotal vestment but I...
I was much pleased to observe that you had taken more pains with the writing of your last Letter...
At length I feel well enough to write you again though I have no reason to hope that my...
71From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 30 January 1822 (Adams Papers)
You are well aware, because you have mentioned it in more than one of your letters to this place,...
Your Letter is this moment brought to me and would certainly have afforded me more pleasure could...
73From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 18 February 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received, and duly reflected upon your Letter of the 10th instt. and approve very...
I know why it is but I write with so much difficulty and feel so much averse to undertake it I am...
I am afraid that you read my letters in as great a hurry as you appear to do every thing else...
Why will you give way to despondence? the time you have been at College has been too short in any...
77From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 18 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have learnt from some of the Letters which you have lately written to your Mother and your...
I am sorry to say that your last Letter was so badly written that I could scarcely read it and I...
What is the reason you do not write me? Are you determined to relinquish all intercourse with...
You seem by the facetious tone of your Letters when you honour me with any to imagine that I have...
I yesterday received your Letter and could not help smiling at poor Shaws distress though I...
How I wish I could divide myself and fly to nurse you my poor Boy—If your Uncle had not still to...
I have been so unwell it has not been in my power to answer your last Letter—Poor John—Has the...
84From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 3 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
It is long since I had the pleasure of writing to you or of receiving a Letter from you; yet...
Still in this City I again write you and probably for the last time until I get home—Your last...
John in his last Letter to me tells me that you make a secret of my Letters to you and will not...
87From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 28 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
In replying to your Letter of the 12th. instt. I might begin, by asking an explanation if its...
I am so concerned at the style of your last Letter I hasten to answer it immediately although I...
89From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 10 November 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 2d. instt and trusting entirely to the faithfulness of the...
I am very anxious about you my dear Boy as the time approaches for your visit and I pray both you...
Your Letter came yesterday and was received with even more pleasure than they generally are from...
At last my dear Charles I find a moment of leisure to address you not having had a moment since...
I have been so sick with the Influenza it has not been possible to write independent of which the...
The easy manner in which you appear to take your College studies is diverting to me I confess but...
Your father was amused by your last Letter and glad to learn that you were pleased with any part...
Your brother my Dear Charles is much better and his arm doing well though it will probably be a...
Your Letter is this moment brought me and I really cannot conceive what you mean my Dear Charles...
Being better to day my dear Charles I hasten to write to you fearful if I delay that a Chill and...
I received yesterday my dear Charles your Letter of the 4th. and hasten to answer it as I really...
Your Letter of the 10th. my Dear Charles afflicted me very much as it still betrayed the same...