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	\|Translated text={{right\|''[[Klin]], [[Maydanovo]]''<br/>10/22 February 1887}}		\|Translated text={{right\|''[[Klin]], [[Maydanovo]]''<br/>10/22 February 1887}}
	{{centre\|Dear Monsieur and friend!}}		{{centre\|Dear Monsieur and friend!}}
	You will permit me to address you this, will you not? The invaluable part which you are kindly willing to play in a recital dedicated to my music is sufficient proof for me that you do me the honour of being my friend. I appreciate enormously the flattering attention which you bestow upon me. Please accept, dear Monsieur and friend, this assurance of my profound gratitude, and be so kind as to convey the same sentiment to Monsieurs ''Brun'' and ''Mas''.		You will permit me to address you in this way, will you not? The invaluable part which you are kindly willing to play in a recital dedicated to my music is sufficient proof for me that you do me the honour of being my friend. I appreciate enormously the flattering attention which you bestow upon me. Please accept, dear Monsieur and friend, this assurance of my profound gratitude, and be so kind as to convey the same sentiment to Monsieurs ''Brun'' and ''Mas''.

	I hope that in the course of this season I shall have the pleasure of shaking your hand in [[Paris]].		I hope that in the course of this season I shall have the pleasure of shaking your hand in [[Paris]].

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{{letterhead
|Date=10/22 February 1887
|To=[[Louis Diémer]]
|Place=[[Maydanovo]]
|Language=French
|Autograph=Georgia (USA): {{priv}} <ref name="note1"/>
|Publication={{bib|2011/13|Tchaikovsky Research Bulletin No. 1}} (February 2011), p. 34 (with English translation, p. 35)<br/>{{bibx|2013/36|Чайковский. Новые материалы к творческой биографии}} (2013), p. 386 (with Russian translation, p. 386-387)
|Notes=
}}
==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=French
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text={{right|''Kline, Maïdanowo''<br/>10/22 {{sic|Fevrier|Février}} 1887''}}
{{centre|Cher Monsieur et ami!}}
Vous me permettez[,] n'est ce pas[,] de V[ous] appeler ainsi? Le {{sic|precieux|précieux}} concours que V[ou]s voulez bien {{sic|preter|prêter}} à une séance consacrée à ma musique me prouve assez que V[ou]s me faites l'honneur d'en {{sic|etre|être}} un. J'{{sic|apprecie|apprécie}} énormement [énormément] l'attention flatteuse que V[ou]s me témoignez. Recevez, cher Monsieur et ami, l'expression de ma profonde reconnaissance et veuillez être l'interprète de ce même sentiment auprès de M[onsieu]rs ''Brun'' et ''Mas''.

J'espère dans le courant de cette saison avoir le plaisir de V[ou]s serrer la main à Paris.

Votre bien dévoué et reconnaissant
{{right|P. Tschaïkovsky}}

|Translated text={{right|''[[Klin]], [[Maydanovo]]''<br/>10/22 February 1887}}
{{centre|Dear Monsieur and friend!}}
You will permit me to address you this, will you not? The invaluable part which you are kindly willing to play in a recital dedicated to my music is sufficient proof for me that you do me the honour of being my friend. I appreciate enormously the flattering attention which you bestow upon me. Please accept, dear Monsieur and friend, this assurance of my profound gratitude, and be so kind as to convey the same sentiment to Monsieurs ''Brun'' and ''Mas''.

I hope that in the course of this season I shall have the pleasure of shaking your hand in [[Paris]].

Your most devoted and grateful,
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">The autograph was auctioned on 18 April 2009 Axel Schmolt Autographen-Auktionen, Krefeld, Germany, 18 April 2009. A facsimile was published in their ''Auktionskatalog'' No. 21 (2009).</ref>
</references>