Huzza, my little gallant Soldier—what wonderful feats of glorious prowess am I to anticipate from...
Your Letter from Cambridge arrived yesterday my dear Charles and I was sorry to find you still...
It is an old fashion thus to begin a Letter but there is something so pleasant in the spontaneous...
The Mail is this moment arrived and as I am at leisure I hasten to answer your Letter which is a...
I have again received a Letter from you my Dear Charles which I hasten to answer at least to...
Your Letter of the 10th. my Dear Charles afflicted me very much as it still betrayed the same...
I received yesterday my dear Charles your Letter of the 4th. and hasten to answer it as I really...
Being better to day my dear Charles I hasten to write to you fearful if I delay that a Chill and...
Your Letter is this moment brought me and I really cannot conceive what you mean my Dear Charles...
Your brother my Dear Charles is much better and his arm doing well though it will probably be a...
Your father was amused by your last Letter and glad to learn that you were pleased with any part...
The easy manner in which you appear to take your College studies is diverting to me I confess but...
I have been so sick with the Influenza it has not been possible to write independent of which the...
At last my dear Charles I find a moment of leisure to address you not having had a moment since...
Your Letter came yesterday and was received with even more pleasure than they generally are from...
46From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 10 November 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 2d. instt and trusting entirely to the faithfulness of the...
I am very anxious about you my dear Boy as the time approaches for your visit and I pray both you...
I am so concerned at the style of your last Letter I hasten to answer it immediately although I...
49From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 28 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
In replying to your Letter of the 12th. instt. I might begin, by asking an explanation if its...
John in his last Letter to me tells me that you make a secret of my Letters to you and will not...
Still in this City I again write you and probably for the last time until I get home—Your last...
52From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 3 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
It is long since I had the pleasure of writing to you or of receiving a Letter from you; yet...
I have been so unwell it has not been in my power to answer your last Letter—Poor John—Has the...
How I wish I could divide myself and fly to nurse you my poor Boy—If your Uncle had not still to...
I yesterday received your Letter and could not help smiling at poor Shaws distress though I...
You seem by the facetious tone of your Letters when you honour me with any to imagine that I have...
What is the reason you do not write me? Are you determined to relinquish all intercourse with...
I am sorry to say that your last Letter was so badly written that I could scarcely read it and I...
59From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 18 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have learnt from some of the Letters which you have lately written to your Mother and your...
Why will you give way to despondence? the time you have been at College has been too short in any...