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...
165From 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...
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...
168From 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...
Eh b’en Mon petit Caporal honours seem to thicken so fast on Adams race we can scarce find time...
170From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 6 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
Is it because I have not answered your last Letter my dear Charles that you have not written to...
171From 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...
172From 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...
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...
Why what is the matter my Son? surely when you wrote your last Letter you must have been...
The perpetual trouble and occupation we have found in getting into our new residence has...
At length I feel well enough to write you again though I have no reason to hope that my...
179From 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...
I am very sorry my Dear Charles to find by your last Letter that your health is not good but am...
Your Letter is this moment brought me and I really cannot conceive what you mean my Dear Charles...
I am very anxious about you my dear Boy as the time approaches for your visit and I pray both you...
I am much gratified to learn that you have made an agreeable acquaintance, and still more that...
I wrote you a very few lines yesterday my dear Charles, with a promise to write to you again...
You are right my Dear Charles to go Quincy for a few days to restore your health a little before...
Yours of the 30th. came to hand yesterday and I feel very uneasy concerning the fever you...
Your Letter my Dear Charles would cause me considerable uneasiness did I not know that you have...
Your two Cousins and John having left me at home and gone to pass the evening at Mrs. J Monro’s I...
I know why it is but I write with so much difficulty and feel so much averse to undertake it I am...
Just returned from Virginia about 2 hours ago, I hasten to answer your Letter which your father...
191From 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...
192From 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...
I yesterday received your Letter and could not help smiling at poor Shaws distress though I...
I have again received a Letter from you my Dear Charles which I hasten to answer at least to...
Your Letter came yesterday and was received with even more pleasure than they generally are from...
Your Letter gave me much pleasure though I thought I perceived some few marks of carelessness and...
I could almost wish your Letters were filled with observations on any other books than Novels...
Your two last Letters have come safely to hand and I am much pleased at your steadiness and...
Keep up your spirits my dear Son and do let the outrageous slanders and misrepresentations of the...
In answer to your last Letter I can only say that I regret as much as you do the precipitation...
The observations which you make in your Letter to me of the 29 March on the Books you have been...
I hasten to answer your last my Dear Charles as I cannot bear your reproaches which I feel I...
It is an old fashion thus to begin a Letter but there is something so pleasant in the spontaneous...
204From 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...
205From 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...
The character you give of your friend Dawes is so pleasing, that I am much rejoiced at your...
What is the reason you do not write me? Are you determined to relinquish all intercourse with...
Well, Charles, how comes on the file? is yours as big as John’s? are your walks so delightful you...
209From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 6 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
Why will you give way to despondence? the time you have been at College has been too short in any...
John in his last Letter to me tells me that you make a secret of my Letters to you and will not...