1From 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...
Your papa was much pleased with your Letter as it was very prettily written and the style was...
A very few days after my arrival in this City, I received your Letter of 19. September, the...
As Mr. Pope is so good as to offer to convey your skates to Boston I have siezed the opportunity...
I will begin my letter, by offerering the joint congratulations of your father and myself, to you...
6From 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...
Your Letter gave me much pleasure though I thought I perceived some few marks of carelessness and...
I am much gratified to learn that you have made an agreeable acquaintance, and still more that...
Your two last Letters have come safely to hand and I am much pleased at your steadiness and...
The observations which you make in your Letter to me of the 29 March on the Books you have been...