1To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 5 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope before you shall have received this letter, your Excellency will be safe arrived, and...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 29 May 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honoured, my dear Madam, with your letter of the 5th. instant, and embrace the first...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 25 June 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I return your Excellency a thousand thanks for your kind and friendly letter. I wish it was in my...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 10 July 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received the favour of your letter by Doctr. Bancroft and am sensible of the honour...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 15 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour to receive your Excellency’s kind and friendly letter of the 29th. of May, for...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 27 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honoured with your letter of the 15th. inst. by Mr. Voss. I concur with you in opinion that...
7To Thomas Jefferson from John and Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 22 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
London, 22 June 1787. They plan to leave for Virginia within a week or two; thank TJ for his...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 22 November 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to trouble your Excellency with a few lines to acquaint you of our Arrival in...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 2 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
As I find, I shall never be able to speak to Your Excellency I thought it best to write to you....
10To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 17 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will pardon my troubling you with my Letters so often, but, Indeed, I do not know the...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 21 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I am, before I begin the Subject of this Letter to beg of Your Excellency to keep Secret what I...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 22 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall be very happy to see Monsieur de Fondate either this morning or tomorrow morning at any...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 4 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have spoken to Mr. Paradise on the subject you desire, and he assured me he should, before his...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 11 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to thank your Excellency for your Answer, and to assure you of my Gratitude to...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 11 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Being much engaged, it was not possible for me to answer your favor of to-day in the moment of...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 12 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Excellencies humanity to my Cries to have things arrainged so as to have some supply not to...
17To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 13 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
As I am now put in full possession of the dividends by Your Excellencies great humanity and...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 13 September 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I am truly mortified that it is not in my power to do exactly the thing which would be most...
19To Thomas Jefferson from John and Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 10 October 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Bergamo, 10 Oct. 1788. Is grateful for TJ’s favors to himself and his family; their trip was...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 10 November 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 29th. of October our dear friend Mr. Short came to us. On the 1st. of Novr. he was taken...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 4 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I was in hopes my future Letters would have been Letters of amusement and not of Grief. Your very...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 6 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Engaged in writing letters by an opportunity which offers for England, it has not been in my...
23To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 15 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I must beg your Excellency to accept my apology for troubling you with a second Letter upon our...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 17 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
A sick family, which scarcely permitted me to dispatch the most pressing business, must be my...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 18 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very happy to hear that your Daughter is better today, I am certain with your affectionate,...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 29 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
The Letter your Excellency was pleased to send us yesterday Morning by your Servant, has brought...
27To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 31 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. and Mrs. Paradise present their compliments to his Excellency Mr. Jefferson, and will do...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 27 February 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I take up my pen in the stead of my Dear Dr. Bancrof who is very greatly hurried to acquaint your...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 24 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Very much to do must always be my apology for acknoleging so late the receipt of your letters,...
30To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 31 March 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Excellency by this Post will recvd. two Letters . This I was obliged to write by it’s self,...
31From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 6 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored with yours of Mar. 31. Mine to yourself and Dr. Bancroft will already have answered...
32To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 14 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to acquaint your Excellency that the Biblia Indica per Elid Cantab. 4to. went...
33From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 30 April 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 14th. inst. I am in hopes...
34To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 5 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to acquaint you that the Books you wished to have, have gone for a great deal...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 15 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Since, I had the honour of writing to your Excellency, I have heard a piece of News which is that...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 26 May 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
All the Books at Pinellis Sale went extremely high; you have four only out of all your catalogue....
37From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 1 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of May the 5th. and 15th. should not have been so long unacknoleged but that I...
38To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 2 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
This Letter I beg Mr. P. may Not see. I am extremely sorry to tell your Excellency that Mr. Young...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 30 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
As I am happy to find You have not quitted Europe yet, give Me leave to return you a Thousand...
40From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 13 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been long without acknoleging the receipt of your favors of June the 2d. and 30th. I...
41To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 18 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your affectionate and kind Letter of the 13th. on the 17th. the Day after the arrival...
42To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 18 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Paradise has desired me to acquaint your Excellency he shall have the honour to write to you...
43To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, [ca. 1 September 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
London , [ ca. 1 Sep. 1789 ]. She has written “very often… but have not had any answer to My...
44To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 8 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
On Saturday the 6th. Inst. I had the pleasure of Seeing your American Friends all well. They...
45From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 10 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to acknolege the receipt of your favor of July 18. and that by the last post . Having now...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 7 October 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
A thousand thanks for your thousand friendly actions during your Stay in Europe. God bless and...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 2 February 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
This Moment have We hear of your Excellencies Arrival in Virginia, and also, of the horrid...
48To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 2 March 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
London, 2 Mch. 1790 . She wrote last month “by the New York [packet] Capt. Domenick … to the care...
49To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 29 May 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Paradise and Myself received your truly kind and comforting Letter from Monticello on April...
50From Thomas Jefferson to Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 23 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege from you a long list of letters, to wit, Octob. 7. Feb. 2. Mar. 2. 20. 24....