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 found your amiable daughter in perfect health, to whom, I beg you will make all our Compliments. Your very kind letter I received on the morning of your Excellency’s departure, for which, I return you a thousand thanks, as it gave me great comfort, and brought me the pleasing assurance of your...
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 opportunity which has offered by a private hand of sending to Mr. Paradise letters for Virginia. I shall be happy to hear he is gone there, because I believe he will be happier there than in England. It is a country where a rational and studious man may follow his inclinations with less...
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 power to acquaint you that the time was fixed, and that we had taken our passage for our return to dear Virginia. Since you left us I thought proper (seeing the affairs of Mr. Paradise grow worse, and worse every day, as my truly good friend Dr. Bancroft will acquaint you) to write a letter to Dr....
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 of the confidence you are pleased to repose in me. I wish it were in my power, more than it is, to promote those measures which the interests of your family seem to require. I have taken the liberty of writing to Mr. Paradise on the subject, a liberty greater than perhaps could be justified. Were my...
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 which I return you a thousand thanks. The present situation of our affairs is truly distressing, as a debt of such an enormous size is not easily discharged. The Ship we expected arrived a few weeks ago, and brought only 44 Hogshd. of tobacco. I say only 44 as it is not enough to pay the creditors...
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 it is for Mr. Paradise’s interest to go as soon as possible to America, and also to turn all his debts into one which may be to Mr. Gist or any other: upon condition that the person giving him this credit shall be satisfied to receive annually his interest in money and shall not require...
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 valuable help and offer to perform any services for him there. Their eldest daughter was married on 4 Apr. to “His Excellency Count Antonio Barziza a Patrician of the Republick of Venice and a Gentleman with a good Character, and fortune,” whose estates are at Bergamo. They have given Count and...
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 Dear Virginia and at the same time to thank you for all the attentions you have been pleased to shew Mr. Paradise myself and family. The Passage we had was long and very disagreeable, as we had the great misfortune to have a Brute of a Captain to Command the Ship Juno, owing to the very unfortunate...
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. Mr. Paradise is an honest Man, and a Man who has had a very good Education, but alas with all that, he never has, since I have been Married given himself the proper time to think upon his affairs as he ought and that is the true reason of my past, and present suffrings. He thinks only of the present...
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 reason, but when, I have the honour, and happiness of conversing with you, I cannot Speak often, what, I would wish to say, therefore it is that I am obliged to have recourse to this method to converse with Your Excellency. I have been turning in my mind what you mentioned to me, for one person to...