1To Thomas Jefferson from Levi Hunt, Jr., 18 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me for a moment to solicit your attention from the affairs of a great nation to the situation of an unfortunate young man—nothing but a profound sense of the generosity of your character, and a conviction of the absolute necessity of the measure, could persuade me to make this almost desperate attempt to recover from the embarrassed state of my affairs— My Father the Revd Levi Hunt, of...