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...