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...
What is the reason you do not write me? Are you determined to relinquish all intercourse with...
You seem by the facetious tone of your Letters when you honour me with any to imagine that I have...
I yesterday received your Letter and could not help smiling at poor Shaws distress though I...
How I wish I could divide myself and fly to nurse you my poor Boy—If your Uncle had not still to...
I have been so unwell it has not been in my power to answer your last Letter—Poor John—Has the...
56From 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...
Still in this City I again write you and probably for the last time until I get home—Your last...
John in his last Letter to me tells me that you make a secret of my Letters to you and will not...
59From 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...
I am so concerned at the style of your last Letter I hasten to answer it immediately although I...