Why what is the matter my Son? surely when you wrote your last Letter you must have been...
The perpetual trouble and occupation we have found in getting into our new residence has...
At length I feel well enough to write you again though I have no reason to hope that my...
I am very sorry my Dear Charles to find by your last Letter that your health is not good but am...
Your Letter is this moment brought me and I really cannot conceive what you mean my Dear Charles...
I am very anxious about you my dear Boy as the time approaches for your visit and I pray both you...
I am much gratified to learn that you have made an agreeable acquaintance, and still more that...
I wrote you a very few lines yesterday my dear Charles, with a promise to write to you again...
You are right my Dear Charles to go Quincy for a few days to restore your health a little before...
Yours of the 30th. came to hand yesterday and I feel very uneasy concerning the fever you...
Your Letter my Dear Charles would cause me considerable uneasiness did I not know that you have...
Your two Cousins and John having left me at home and gone to pass the evening at Mrs. J Monro’s I...
I know why it is but I write with so much difficulty and feel so much averse to undertake it I am...
Just returned from Virginia about 2 hours ago, I hasten to answer your Letter which your father...
I yesterday received your Letter and could not help smiling at poor Shaws distress though I...
I have again received a Letter from you my Dear Charles which I hasten to answer at least to...
Your Letter came yesterday and was received with even more pleasure than they generally are from...
Your Letter gave me much pleasure though I thought I perceived some few marks of carelessness and...
I could almost wish your Letters were filled with observations on any other books than Novels...
Your two last Letters have come safely to hand and I am much pleased at your steadiness and...
Keep up your spirits my dear Son and do let the outrageous slanders and misrepresentations of the...
In answer to your last Letter I can only say that I regret as much as you do the precipitation...
The observations which you make in your Letter to me of the 29 March on the Books you have been...
I hasten to answer your last my Dear Charles as I cannot bear your reproaches which I feel I...
It is an old fashion thus to begin a Letter but there is something so pleasant in the spontaneous...
The character you give of your friend Dawes is so pleasing, that I am much rejoiced at your...
What is the reason you do not write me? Are you determined to relinquish all intercourse with...
Well, Charles, how comes on the file? is yours as big as John’s? are your walks so delightful you...
129From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 6 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
Why will you give way to despondence? the time you have been at College has been too short in any...
John in his last Letter to me tells me that you make a secret of my Letters to you and will not...
Your father was amused by your last Letter and glad to learn that you were pleased with any part...
I have been so sick my Dear Charles since my arrival at home it has been altogether out of my...
Your Letter from Cambridge arrived yesterday my dear Charles and I was sorry to find you still...
Huzza, my little gallant Soldier—what wonderful feats of glorious prowess am I to anticipate from...
I congratulate you upon the recovery of your spirits; and I do not know what to say about Langdon...
As I am afraid you will hardly recieve my Letter in time I hasten to tell you that if you have no...
I am so concerned at the style of your last Letter I hasten to answer it immediately although I...
In yours of the 4th & 7th you tell me that you had taken a fresh cold but that it was nearly...
You seem by the facetious tone of your Letters when you honour me with any to imagine that I have...
I am very much pained by your account of your health and hope sincerely that you have made a...
I am sorry to say that your last Letter was so badly written that I could scarcely read it and I...
I have been so unwell it has not been in my power to answer your last Letter—Poor John—Has the...
I will begin my letter, by offerering the joint congratulations of your father and myself, to you...
Having just dismissed my visitors Mr. Jackson and Mr McTavish I hasten to write you in answer to...
145From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 4 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
You reproach me without a cause and I dare say you got your Letter the very day after you...
I enclose you some lines which were written very hastily yesterday morning immediately after...
I received your Letter of the 7th yesterday Evening and was very happy to learn that you...
I enclose you some lines I wrote if you like you may publish them but do not say whose they are...
I am so much concerned my Dear George to learn from your last letter what a state of suffering...
The frequent and violent attacks of sickness which assail me my Dear George render me a wretched...