1From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 17 August 1825 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for a very pleasant letter, and I supplicate a continuance of them—I have given up...
2From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 3 December 1825 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your two letters—and I wish you would continue to write to me twice a week—my...
3From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 12 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
I am much pleased with your frankness in relating the manners and customs of your School—talking...
4From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 21 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
I now hope to see you, after 8 years Absence. I cannot write you a formal Letter. You have a kind...
5From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 19 December 1825 (Adams Papers)
Knowing as I do the whirlwind of business, ceremony, Levee’s Drawing rooms Dinners, Parties, with...
Your dear Mother not long since received a Letter from you, in which I read with great pleasure,...
A very few days after my arrival in this City, I received your Letter of 19. September, the...
8From 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...
9From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 13 August 1826 (Adams Papers)
I received in due time your Letter of the 1st. instt. from New–York; since which Letters from...
10From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 4 December 1824 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 25th. ulto. and very cheerfully comply with your desire to...
11From 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...
12From 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...
13From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 12 June 1824 (Adams Papers)
Your Letters of 21. February and 6. April, have remained long unanswered—They are both upon...
14From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 19 January 1818 (Adams Papers)
Your new-years day Letter was received with much pleasure. I had heard something before, about...
15From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 15 September 1826 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 9th. instt. and now enclose a Check on the Branch Bank for 500...
16From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 7 December 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have duly considered your affectionate Letter of the 25th. of last Month, and shall be glad to...
17From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 30 January 1822 (Adams Papers)
You are well aware, because you have mentioned it in more than one of your letters to this place,...
18From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 17 July 1825 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of the 2d. Instt. has remained some days unanswered, more from a repugnance in me to...
19From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 15 July 1823 (Adams Papers)
The bearer of this Letter Mr Cornelius McLean is a young Gentleman of very respectable character...
20From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 18 February 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received, and duly reflected upon your Letter of the 10th instt. and approve very...
21From 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...
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...