1To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 27 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
This day I arrived at Norfolk in the Ship Planta Capt. Bush. I take the liberty to write to Your Excellency to acquaint you I am Come home to live the remaining Years of My Life in the Bosom of My Native Country and Friends. I should not have Staid a Month After the Death of Mr Paradise but one Illness after another prevented Me. With the Blessing of God I am Now in good health and with My...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 31 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to trouble your Excellency with a few lines to enquire after the health of your Excellency and Amiable Daughters. It is by writing only that we can know if our friends are well and happy. Mr William Smith who was our Minister at Portugal came here a few Months and stayed a short time and I am told he is gone to Holland. The Russian Ambassador his Excellency Count de Woronzow...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 31 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I take up my pen to thank you for the trouble you have taken in all my affairs and to assure you I am greatly obliged to you for the liberty I took in using your Name in the Power of Attorney I sent to you. In consiquence of the Great Distance you live from Williamsburg I have sent out a Power of Attorney to My Nephew Mr. Wm Ludwell Lee Mr. Ambler and Mr P. Harriss to Act for Me and to call in...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 1 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
We have received your Excellencies very kind and friendly Letter, and return you our grateful thanks for the Interest you are so good as to take in our affairs, we beg you only to Continue your good offices, as we stand in greater need of them now, More than ever. We thank you for the advice you give Us concerning the Thousand Pound Sterling we have in the Funds of Virginia, and shall...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 1 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will pardon My troubling your Excellency with these few lines to make an enquiry after your health, and that of your amiable families: And to know at the same time if you have received a Letter I did Myself the honour to send you by Bishop Maddison . You will greatly oblige Mr. Paradise and Myself if you would let Us know by the return of the Spring Ships whether your Agent has...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 26 September 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honoured by your very polite and friendly Letter of June the 23d on August the 31st 1790. It brings Me an Account of My Estates &c. in Virginia. I have received your first, and Answered it. In that Letter, I trouble you with my Grateful thanks. I now repeat the Same, and wish sincerely I had it in my power by some Means to convince Your Excellency of the sincerity of my heart. I...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 1 September 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have done Myself the honour of writing to your Excellency by Mr. Broom. The purpot of that Letter was to acquaint you that the Queen of Portugal had appointed Chevr. de Freire to be her Minister to our States. He was to have gone to a Court in Europe. But Monsr. le Chevr. de Pinto knowing Mr. Freire knew more of Amerca then, perhaps, any of his Countrymen, and also, as he had the honour of...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 20 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of acquainting your Excellency that the Queen of Portugal has appointed Monsr. le Chevr. de Freire to be her Minister to America. This Gentleman was to have gone to another Court, but Monsr. le Chevr. de Pinto, knowing that Monsr. de Freire had been imployed here to negotiate the Treaty between Portugal, and America, and also, as he was personally acquainted with your...
9To 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 the 27th. 1790. I have only to say upon the occasion, that the Sense I have of this act of your’s is such, that, I fear Myself and family will never be able fully to repay it. I thank you My ever More then Father, for your goodness in thinking pf My unhappy Situation. It is indeed a painful one but...
10To 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 of Mr. John Beckley” to congratulate TJ and daughters on safe arrival in their native land. Thanks TJ “for the Many and great acts of friendship, and humanity” shown her and Mr. Paradise in Paris. Her distressed situation prevents her from showing gratitude except by letters. On arrival in...