I cannot refuse myself the pleasure of answering, your very beautiful, and affectionate letter,...
52From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 1814 (Adams Papers)
To offer you anything like consolation for your irreparable loss my dear Mother is I feel utterly...
Mr. Adams brought me your very kind Letter from Town the day before yesterday dated in Septbr:...
I have delayed writing dear Madam longer than I intended, in the hope of giving you a more...
As this is probably the last opportunity I shall have to write you I sieze it with avidity, and...
We wait with much anxiety for Letters, to reassure us on account of your health; although the...
I received your two kind letters a few days since and was much affected by the account of poor...
Your very kind and welcome letter arrived yesterday and completely reanimated my frame which was...
An occasion now offering to write you I sieze it with the utmost pleasure to inform you of our...
Your kind letter of the 2 September was delivered to me the day before yesterday, conveying the...
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 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...
Being better to day my dear Charles I hasten to write to you fearful if I delay that a Chill and...
I was delighted with your Letter and was only sorry you did not mention your health, which I...
I am rejoiced my Dear Charles to learn that your journey was so pleasant and that the little...
What sort of a Letter was your last and how is it to be answered? to be angry with you is...
You tell me in your last Letter that “you believe you did not write to me, because you had not...
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...
Since my return home my Dear George Charles I have been so much engaged it has been almost...
I am afraid that you read my letters in as great a hurry as you appear to do every thing else...
Our winter routine has begun and as usual I am plunged into the depths of visits invitations...
At last my dear Charles I find a moment of leisure to address you not having had a moment since...
As Mr. Pope is so good as to offer to convey your skates to Boston I have siezed the opportunity...
When I left you I did not think you were so soon to assume the sacerdotal vestment but I...
Your last Letter my dear Charles quite revived my spirits as it re-assured me concerning yours...
Still in this City I again write you and probably for the last time until I get home—Your last...
As I hear there has been a great fall of snow during the last week or two in Boston I suppose you...
I have been so sick with the Influenza it has not been possible to write independent of which the...
The Mail is this moment arrived and as I am at leisure I hasten to answer your Letter which is a...
I enclose you a Letter from one of your young correspondents which was received a few days after...
I have just received your little and your big Letter, and return you many thanks for both, which...
During my long absence from home my Dear Charles I could not write to you as it was difficult to...
I was much pleased to observe that you had taken more pains with the writing of your last Letter...
We yesterday went fishing for the first time and to my great astonishment on looking up our...
The easy manner in which you appear to take your College studies is diverting to me I confess but...
How I wish I could divide myself and fly to nurse you my poor Boy—If your Uncle had not still to...
Poor Mariano is dead. On Sunday Even’—he was sitting reading the new Tragedy of Lord Byron when...
I am very sorry my dear Charles that any thing in my last Letter should have wounded your...
Your two last Letters would have given me much pleasure if they had been more easy to decypher...
You Letter was brought two days since, and I should have received it with the same pleasure your...
I received your Letter my Dear Charles yesterday Eveng. and hasten to answer it from the...
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...
Eh b’en Mon petit Caporal honours seem to thicken so fast on Adams race we can scarce find time...
Is it because I have not answered your last Letter my dear Charles that you have not written to...
Your papa was much pleased with your Letter as it was very prettily written and the style was...
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 to me and would certainly have afforded me more pleasure could...