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Italian physicist (1745–1827) best known for his epochal investigations into the nature and uses of electricity, leading him to invent the battery; the unit denoting the potential difference or electromotive force was named the volt in his honor. ALS in Italian, one page both sides, 7 x 9.5, February 20, 1818. Handwritten letter to his nephew, Alessandro Rejna, at Como, discussing the employment of another nephew, and the prospects among professors and their assistants. In part (translated): "I am not pleased that your brother the young Count has not been included…I have no doubt that it will deliver a good pension, in view of his long services; and of the motion there would not be probably agreed an employment for him outside his own country, without great increase. In this disaster of the jobs there are too many discontented people…but we need patience, to believe in some better luck in time. This sole comfort remains here in Pavia, where various Professors and Assistants remain either excluded or suspended." Professionally silked and in very good to fine condition, with ink erosion to several areas of the page.
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