Autograph letter to the Contessa Anna Maria Malvezzi, signed "G. Rossini." 1 page. 8vo. Bologna, 8 May, 1843. A letter of introduction and "supreme recommendation" on behalf of the Venetian composer and pianist Enrico Angeli (1820 - 1844) who studied with Thalberg and Sechter, and about whom Rossini wrote elewhere that he had "an Italian soul and German fingers." (Giovanni Masuttu, "I maestri di musica italiani del secolo xix: notizie biografiche," p. 206) A few creases, else fine.