1From 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...
2From 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 &...
3From 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...
4From 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...
5From 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...
6Thomas 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...