'tender memories' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to express fond memories or nostalgia. For example, 'She remembered the summer camp with tender memories.'.
"Twenty Letters to a Friend," though dedicated to her mother, contains no tender memories.
The book is replete with tender memories and the dark secrets held in Marie's darkroom.
Mosley's protagonist is a sympathetic figure, and his lifetime of violent and tender memories is rendered with compassion and insight.
Shar wrote: Grandparents or even unrelated others often want to relive the intimacy and tender memories of their own early parenting and their own vanished babies, and the most obvious motivation is being around current new parents.
Many of us have tender memories of sprinkling Baby Bio over wispy moustaches or smearing baby‑soft skin with Max Factor Pan-Stok to sneak into our first X-rated movie.
For another, he volunteers a touchingly tender memory of meeting me on holiday in Scotland more than 30 years ago.
Her most tender memory of her father involves the study of anatomy, "his strong fingers tracing the lines of muscles and bones on my small foot".
The elegiac aspect of the Elgar operates on us like a film score, framing the action as if in tender memory.
HITCH-22: A Memoir, by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, $26.99). When the colorful, prolific journalist shares a tender memory, he quickly converts it into a larger observation about politics, always for him the most crucial sphere of moral and intellectual life.
(Would it be primitive to say that he seems so English in this way, though he's become an American citizen?) When he shares a tender memory, his preference is to quickly convert it into a larger political observation; for him, politics remains the most crucial sphere of moral and intellectual life.
