Judith Lomax to Thomas Jefferson, 30 November 1813
From Judith Lomax
(Port-Tobago.—Novber 30th /1813.
I send you my dear Sir, the promised Acacia Seed, together with a few of the Flowers, knowing you to be an admirer of the perfume.—The Filbert scions you will get, whenever an opportunity shall occur at the proper season for removing them.—My best wish’s await Mrs Randolph, and Mrs C. Bankhead, I will send Mrs Randolph the flower seed I promised, so soon as I can make a collection worth offering.
Judith Lomax.—
RC (MHi); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 13 Dec. 1813 and so recorded in SJL.
At Monticello on 16 Feb. 1814, TJ planted “56 seeds of the acacia Nilotica” that he had received from Lomax. They descended from “the plant at Greenspring,” the estate of colonial governor Sir William Berkeley, near Williamsburg (, 83, 524).
Index Entries
- Bankhead, Ann (Anne) Cary Randolph (TJ’s granddaughter; Charles Lewis Bankhead’s wife); greetings to search
- Berkeley, Sir William; seed from Greenspring estate of search
- filberts search
- gum arabic tree search
- Lomax, Judith; letters from search
- Lomax, Judith; sends seeds to TJ search
- Randolph, Martha Jefferson (Patsy; TJ’s daughter; Thomas Mann Randolph’s wife); flower seeds sent to search
- Randolph, Martha Jefferson (Patsy; TJ’s daughter; Thomas Mann Randolph’s wife); greetings to search
- seeds; gum arabic tree search
- seeds; sent to M. J. Randolph search
- seeds; sent to TJ search
- trees; filbert search
- trees; gum arabic search
- women; letters from; J. Lomax search