Browsing: Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 2

“The extraordinary charges to which you are liable, from the peculiarity of your situation, are of a nature to which I cannot object and for which I am willing according to my ability to provide. The allowance which I had proposed to make you was the same I had made to your brother George, when at the same State of his education. You find it insufficient to meet your necessary expenses. Let me know what addition you wish to have made to it—Remembering that ... in the allowances of a Parent {p. 184} to his children, a relative proportion of equal regard is to be observed between them as well as between the liberality and the circumstances of the Parent.”