101From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 3 February 1824 (Adams Papers)
On the 5th. of last month I received your Letter dated on the first and have been in expectation...
102From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 1 March 1818 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of the 19th: of Last Month, informing me of your admission to the University gave me...
103From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 18 August 1825 (Adams Papers)
Thomas J. Hellan is to be offered as a Candidate for admission at Harvard University this year—I...
In Joke while I was in Boston you one day said you would lend your Books to your Uncle Tom in New...
105From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 22 February 1822 (Adams Papers)
Do not the cannon which have thundered this morning in honour of your Namesake, in flame a holy...
106From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 10 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received your No 19, 24, Feby. When I recollect the freedom of speech, which I indulged,...
107From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 20 September 1822 (Adams Papers)
Your beautiful letter of the 8th has given me great pleasure I call it beautiful because the...
Your Letter with that of Hariet Welsh was received by me a few hours after your father and John...
We suffer too much from the heat my Dear George not to make allowance for your purisse but I am...
I wrote you a hurried Letter the other day my dear George in answer to your last as I was fearful...
Although my Dear George I fear that my last Letter was not very palatable to your high spirit...
In all the hurry and confusion which attended our journey it was impossible for me to write you...
I am very glad my Dear George find by your Letter which is just received that you are better and...
With the utmost pleasure I would write to you as often as you wish were my health perfectly and...
Your father has intended writing to you several days but something or other perpetually occurring...
116From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 29 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 11th. and your mother has that of the 16th. from Paris. I...
117From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 15 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your letter of the 4th. November I am very glad to hear that you are so nearly...
118From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 26 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
I am delighted with your number 22. It is not too free. It is modest enough. It is wise learned...
You will be quite worn out my dear George with my would be poetic effusions; but as I told you in...
120From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 20 February 1825 (Adams Papers)
Your letter has given me great pleasure, and so have those of your brother John—they are lively,...
I have at length received your Letter, after having unpatiently waited untill your more important...
N. 9 has reached me and I hasten to answer it although I must complain a little at your...
I am at length about to attempt to answer your Letter but am not quite sure whether I shall be...
I was much gratified by the receipt of your Letter my dear George yesterday at noon and am...
It is some time my dear George since I wrote but much sickness and trouble have kept my mind in a...
My absence from the City must plead My excuse for not sooner congratulating you on your success...
127From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 26 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
I have but one moment of time to answer your Letter of the 2d: instant—and to direct you at the...
128From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 20 June 1826 (Adams Papers)
Mr Walker delivered me your Laconic epistle of the 3d. instt. promising an answer at an early day...
I yesterday received your Letter dated Quincy and was delighted to find your very formidable...
130From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 16 October 1826 (Adams Papers)
We had a jovial day at Newport, after you left me, till five in the afternoon, when I embarked in...
131From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 24 October 1826 (Adams Papers)
Your Letters of the 16th. and 20th. instt have been received, and have given me great pleasure....
I was very happy to hear from you my dear George as I felt anxious on account of the great heat...
133From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 13 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
If you have a desire of a long life and a happy life I advise you to read Cicero. Your Father has...
Accept my congratulations my Dear George on your success in the performance of a task become...
Last Eveng Mr. Ingersol called and sat with us sometime and we had a good and pleasant chat after...
136From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 27 January 1822 (Adams Papers)
The splendid account we receive from you and others of the dinners parties and balls from...
In the course of my ride from New Brunswick yesterday my Dear George the wish you expressed for...
I mentioned to you that I had been amusing myself in translating the Dialogue of Plato. I now...
139From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 5 October 1823 (Adams Papers)
I now enclose you a Letter for George Davis, which you will deliver to him—The subscription as I...
140From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 27 December 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have mourned with your mourning in your No. 9 of the 16th Dec. for the loss of Colonel Trimble,...
My health is so bad that I am obliged to relinquish my correspondence almost in spite of myself...
142From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 11 June 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have finished the Sprit of the King. About 3400 pages, as romantick as any of Scotts Novels and...
143From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 14 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
I will not trouble you, to read a history of my pains and aches, as an apology for neglecting to...
Abby left us this morning my Dear George on her way to Boston under the protection of Mr Fuller...
145From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 10 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the 23d ulto. & your father’s letter & octavo volume mentioned in...
Shall I first congratulate you on the honours which you have just received or will they be...
You will probably have received the translations I sent you my dear Son of Plato as I understand...
148From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 11 July 1822 (Adams Papers)
I agree with you in your number 34. that the quarterly is guilty of damning Stuart, and Reid,...
149From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 8 November 1825 (Adams Papers)
I enclose herewith a Certificate of two Shares, N. 657. 658. in the Middlesex Canal, transferred...
As I know you will be very anxious to hear from me my Dear George I hasten to write merely to...