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...
I enclose you a Letter from one of your young correspondents which was received a few days after...
Your Letter my Dear Charles would cause me considerable uneasiness did I not know that you have...
It is a long time since I wrote you as I have again been very sick and utterly unable to put pen...
84From 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...
Just returned from Virginia about 2 hours ago, I hasten to answer your Letter which your father...
Why what is the matter my Son? surely when you wrote your last Letter you must have been...
Well, Charles, how comes on the file? is yours as big as John’s? are your walks so delightful you...
In yours of the 4th & 7th you tell me that you had taken a fresh cold but that it was nearly...
The character you give of your friend Dawes is so pleasing, that I am much rejoiced at your...
I have just received your little and your big Letter, and return you many thanks for both, which...