Your letter of the 21st arrived from Quincy this Morning and I can only assure you in answer that...
You will no doubt be much surprized at hearing from me, so soon after your departure; but a...
Yesterday evening I received a few lines from you dated from Heglecht. I am extremely happy the...
Your kind letter arrived just in time to cheer us. Charles and I were both quite sick, but are...
We had concluded from appearances here that you would be detained some days at Revel, but I did...
Owing to the unfortunate detention of your last letter (that is to say No 2) I lost the...
As the tops of the Houses here are cover’d with Snow and the winds continue to be contrary I...
Having recieved no letter from you since No: 4 my best friend, I flatter myself you left Reval...
Not having heard from you by the last Mail on which I calculated we are all very much...
Yesterday my best friend I had the heartfelt satisfaction of hearing of your safe arrival at...
All the anxieties which you express in your very affectionate letter No 7 which has just been...
How shall I express my thanks my best beloved friend for you very kind attention. No 8 was put...
Without knowing where to address you I cannot refrain from writing to you to inform you of our...
In the first place I will inform you, as I know how very particular you are, that I have received...
I much fear you will accuse me of negligence in having omitted writing to you by the two last...
Still no Letter from you mon Ami! I can scarcely account for this, as Mr Hall wrote me, that you...
The heartfelt delight I experienced at the reception of your last favour No. 11 is not to be...
I write you again my best friend; although I have nothing from you, since your Letter from...
Your two last No 12 & 13 were delivered to me at the same time I presume the first had been...
I enclose you two Letters which I received for you some time since one of which I mentioned...
Your No 14 is just put into my hands and the hope it gives me of your return has come most...
I received your three last numbers they arrived nearly at the same time No. 14 on Friday and 15 &...
You must laugh at the information contain’d in my last as Mr. Harris tells me he wrote you by the...
I am so exhausted by fatigue that it is with the utmost difficulty I can scrawl a few lines...
The last time I wrote you I was so excessively fatigued and it was so late that I scarcely know...
Your two last favours of the 19 and 22 of July were again deliver’d to me together at on Saturday...
I intended writing you a long Letter this evening my best friend but was interupted by a visit...
Your two last numbers 21 and 22 came together as usual on Saturday last. I could not help smiling...
Mr. Harris was here last evening, and made me an offer of a House, which as times go is...
Your No 21 and 22 were recieved by me as usual last Saturday, or rather Sunday morning, as it was...
I was so fortunate as to recieve your No 25 on Wednesday which was the day in course but as it...
Having recieved your very affectionate letter of the 12 August No. 26 this morning I hasten to...
Your No 28 was deliver’d to me yesterday morning. Your fears of bad news from America in the...
From your last Letter of the 19 I am led to believe that you are not likely to return home so...
I had entirely left off writing under the idea that you would have been on your way home very...
I had left off writing entirely from the idea that you would have left England Ghent befor a...
Some how or other By some mistake I think I misdated my last Letter to you and it is only to day...
No 39 arrived in due time and I have for some time been perpetually satisfied with the Post...
The surprize and sorrow I felt at the receipt of your last letter cannot be expressed and I felt...
I received your kind letter of the 30 of September in due time and although it confirmed the bad...
Although Mr. H.—has informed me that the Congress is dissolved, still I persevere in writing, as...
Bad news still keeps pouring on us and your prophecies are too fatally accomplished It is to day...
Your Letters arrive so regularly that it is scarcely necessary to acknowledge the receipt of...
My last letter mentioned some good news which I had heard from America I thank God this has been...
You cannot think how much I was disappointed in your last last Letter when I open’d it I was in...
46From Charles Francis Adams to John Quincy Adams, 18 November 1814 (Adams Papers)
By some accident my letter was too late for the last Post I therefore only send you this letter...
I am charmed to find by your last letter that you pass your time so agreeably at Ghent: it would...
Your charming letter only reached me last night the roads being very bad but it came time enough...
I did not mean to offend you, in what I wrote you concerning the information you gave. but I was...
Yours of the eighth is come not to fill me with doubts because that was already effected but to...