1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lomax, [before 27] February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
You will no doubt, be surprised at receiving a Letter from one, whose Name you will scarcely be able to recollect; but who frequently thinks of you, with great Esteem, & Pleasure. I have always thought it wrong to intrude upon the Time of a Person importantly engaged in public-Affairs, by a trifleing private Correspondence; and should not trouble you now, was it not at the paticuler Request of...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lomax, 12 March 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Your welcome favor of the last month came to my hands in Philadelphia. so long a time has elapsed since we have been separated by events that it was like a letter from the dead, and recalled to my memory very dear recollections. my subsequent journey through life has offered nothing which in comparison with those is not [cheerless?] & dreary. it is a rich comfort sometimes to look back on...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lomax, 5 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
A Mind placed, where Materials can not be found to strike out a Spark to vivify it, must become cold & torpid: for collision I think as necessary to the excitment, and increase of Ideas, as Flint and Steel are to fire, or friction by the Winds, a healthy exercise to Plants. I receive no information of the Political System of my Country, but what I can collect from News Papers, which come very...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lomax, 25 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 5th. came to hand on the 20th. and I have but time to acknolege it under the present pressure of business. I recognise in it those sentiments of virtue & patriotism which you have ever manifested. the suspension of public opinion from the 11th. to the 17th. the alarm into which it throws all the patriotic part of the federalists, the danger of the dissolution of our union &...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lomax, 2 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be delivered to you by my second Son. You will be pleased to accept of my acknowledgment, and Thanks for your favour of the 25th. of Feby, ’tho it did not reach me till that Day four Weeks; happening probably from its direction near Urbanna, instead of Pt. Royal. I accord most heartly with you in indeavouring to harmonise and bring back the deluded part of our Citizens, to their only...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lomax, 28 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer of this, is my second Son, who has Business in both Washington and Frederick-Town. I have directed him to wait upon you, and any Civilities you can find time to bestow upon him, will be gratefully acknowledged by me. I have also directed him, tho young & a Stranger in Washington, to endeavour to get a Brother, who is younger than himself, as a writer in some of the Publick Offices....
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lomax, 16 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
You will be pleased to excuse my troubleing you with this Address. It is made in behalf of my friend Mr. Humphrey B. Brooke, who is considered as one of the best Surveyors in our State. He will be thankful if there are any Appointments to be made in his Line, to any of our new Countries, to receive one. I can safely assert, that he would be found, fully adequate to any Business of the kind. If...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lomax, 23 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your precious Time has been intruded upon, by two or three Letters from me, in which I had no other Interest, than the pleasure of writing to a Man, who gained, in an early part of my Life, my sincere Esteem and Friendship; but now I beg you will excuse the solicitations of a Father for a Son, who is anxious to get a Commission in the Army, should we unfortunatly be obliged to raise one. My...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lomax, 11 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
the question whether any more regular troops shall be raised has been some time depending before the house of representatives, & was yesterday determined in the negative on a hope, not ungrounded that our differences with Spain may yet be amicably settled. I deferred, till this decision, the acknoleging the reciept of your letter of Dec. 23. inasmuch as it would prove that when I do not...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lomax, 4 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 9. was recieved in due time, as had been that also proposing your son E. L. Lomax for a commission in the regular troops to be raised. that he is your son would be sufficient to interest me in his success had these nominations rested with me. but we find ourselves so entirely incompetent to select the best characters in all the different states, that we have concluded that...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lomax, 10 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Notwithstanding the bad success of my last application to obtain a Commission in the Army, for my Son Edward L. Lomax, I must beg leave to trouble you again upon the same subject. The Secretary of War I am an entire Stranger to, or would not have intruded upon your other business. I shall be extremely thankful if you will do the best you can for him. I did not expect I should have lived to the...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lomax, 19 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your favor of the 10th. I had a consultation with the Secretary at War on the subject of an appointment for mr. E. L. Lomax your son. he informed me that in the new corps of 6000. there was not a single vacancy and that in case of a vacancy, the phalanx of competitors is so solid as to render a chance there much worse than in the old corps. that altho’ there is no opening in...
13Thomas Lomax to Thomas Jefferson, 30 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
By the Carriage, which I now send up for my Daughter , you will receive some filbert Cions, and Nuts, as well as the Juboli , and Acacia , the latter I have been obliged to lay in a flat Box, as the weight of those, out of which they were taken, I was afraid would be too heavy, and dangerous to be put into the Carriage. They will I hope reach you in safety, to be placed in other Boxes. The...
14Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lomax, 6 November 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your carriage arrived here last night only, having been detained some days at Edgehill by the late rains & consequent rise of the river. all the donations which you have been so kind as to charge on it have arrived in perfect order; and being to set out tomorrow for Bedford , this day will be employed in setting out the plants. by the return of the carriage I shall send you three or four...