1From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 17 August 1825 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for a very pleasant letter, and I supplicate a continuance of them—I have given up...
It is a long time since I wrote you as I have again been very sick and utterly unable to put pen...
Your Letter my caused me a mixture of feelings some pleasing some painful the latter because...
Regularity and method are so essential to the acquisition of real knowledge that the little...
Your dear Mother not long since received a Letter from you, in which I read with great pleasure,...
Being better to day my dear Charles I hasten to write to you fearful if I delay that a Chill and...
7From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 20 June 1814 (Adams Papers)
I received your second Letter, dated 23. May, just as I was coming on board the ship at...
The last Letter that I wrote you was on the 6th: of this Month, by Mr Shaw—And on Tuesday last I...
I was delighted with your Letter and was only sorry you did not mention your health, which I...
10From Abigail Smith Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 28 November 1815 (Adams Papers)
I thank you my dear Grandson for your very pretty Letter, as you cannot have any remembrance of...