1From 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...
Your papa was much pleased with your Letter as it was very prettily written and the style was...
A very few days after my arrival in this City, I received your Letter of 19. September, the...
As Mr. Pope is so good as to offer to convey your skates to Boston I have siezed the opportunity...
I will begin my letter, by offerering the joint congratulations of your father and myself, to you...
6From 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...
Your Letter gave me much pleasure though I thought I perceived some few marks of carelessness and...
I am much gratified to learn that you have made an agreeable acquaintance, and still more that...
Your two last Letters have come safely to hand and I am much pleased at your steadiness and...
The observations which you make in your Letter to me of the 29 March on the Books you have been...
Is it because I have not answered your last Letter my dear Charles that you have not written to...
You tell me in your last Letter that “you believe you did not write to me, because you had not...
I could almost wish your Letters were filled with observations on any other books than Novels...
14From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 30 November 1818 (Adams Papers)
Your dear Mother not long since received a Letter from you, in which I read with great pleasure,...
As I hear there has been a great fall of snow during the last week or two in Boston I suppose you...
You Letter was brought two days since, and I should have received it with the same pleasure your...
I was delighted with your Letter and was only sorry you did not mention your health, which I...
I have just received your little and your big Letter, and return you many thanks for both, which...
The character you give of your friend Dawes is so pleasing, that I am much rejoiced at your...
In yours of the 4th & 7th you tell me that you had taken a fresh cold but that it was nearly...
Well, Charles, how comes on the file? is yours as big as John’s? are your walks so delightful you...
Why what is the matter my Son? surely when you wrote your last Letter you must have been...
Just returned from Virginia about 2 hours ago, I hasten to answer your Letter which your father...
24From 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...
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 Dear Charles would cause me considerable uneasiness did I not know that you have...
I enclose you a Letter from one of your young correspondents which was received a few days after...
In answer to your last Letter I can only say that I regret as much as you do the precipitation...
Your two last Letters would have given me much pleasure if they had been more easy to decypher...
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...
You reproach me without a cause and I dare say you got your Letter the very day after you...
What sort of a Letter was your last and how is it to be answered? to be angry with you is...
Your last Letter my dear Charles quite revived my spirits as it re-assured me concerning yours...
We yesterday went fishing for the first time and to my great astonishment on looking up our...
Poor Mariano is dead. On Sunday Even’—he was sitting reading the new Tragedy of Lord Byron when...
I congratulate you upon the recovery of your spirits; and I do not know what to say about Langdon...
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...
When I left you I did not think you were so soon to assume the sacerdotal vestment but I...
I was much pleased to observe that you had taken more pains with the writing of your last Letter...
At length I feel well enough to write you again though I have no reason to hope that my...
43From 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,...
Your Letter is this moment brought to me and would certainly have afforded me more pleasure could...
45From 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...
I know why it is but I write with so much difficulty and feel so much averse to undertake it I am...
I am afraid that you read my letters in as great a hurry as you appear to do every thing else...
Why will you give way to despondence? the time you have been at College has been too short in any...
49From 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...
I am sorry to say that your last Letter was so badly written that I could scarcely read it and I...