1To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Macomb, 4 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Thomas Levins, Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in the College of Georgetown in this District, is desirous of obtaining a professorship in the University of Virginia; and has asked me to mention his name to you in such terms as I believe his merits would justify. It is within two years that I have become acquainted with M r Levins; and finding he possessed a very extensive...