From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 16 December 1815
Saturday Morning 16. Decr: 1815.
My dear John and Charles.
Your Mama, and I, consent that you shall ask Doctor Nicholes’s permission to come home for the Holidays, on Tuesday; upon Condition that you will return to School after the Holidays, as cheerfully, as you now come from it.
Your affectionate Father.
John Quincy Adams.
MHi: Adams Papers.