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...
I am afraid that you read my letters in as great a hurry as you appear to do every thing else...
I know why it is but I write with so much difficulty and feel so much averse to undertake it I am...
63From 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...
Your Letter is this moment brought to me and would certainly have afforded me more pleasure could...
65From 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,...
At length I feel well enough to write you again though I have no reason to hope that my...
I was much pleased to observe that you had taken more pains with the writing of your last Letter...
When I left you I did not think you were so soon to assume the sacerdotal vestment but I...
Regularity and method are so essential to the acquisition of real knowledge that the little...
Your Letter my caused me a mixture of feelings some pleasing some painful the latter because...
I congratulate you upon the recovery of your spirits; and I do not know what to say about Langdon...
Poor Mariano is dead. On Sunday Even’—he was sitting reading the new Tragedy of Lord Byron when...
We yesterday went fishing for the first time and to my great astonishment on looking up our...
Your last Letter my dear Charles quite revived my spirits as it re-assured me concerning yours...
What sort of a Letter was your last and how is it to be answered? to be angry with you is...
You reproach me without a cause and I dare say you got your Letter the very day after you...
Your Shandean Letter is received with all its apologies and few amendments I will only say that...
Your Letter full of complaints my dear Charles reached me yesterday and I am sorry to see you...
Your two last Letters would have given me much pleasure if they had been more easy to decypher...
In answer to your last Letter I can only say that I regret as much as you do the precipitation...