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|Date=25 February/8 March 1888 <br />
|To=[[Pauline Viardot-Garcia]] <br />
|Place=[[Paris]] <br />
|Language=French <br />
|Autograph={{locunknown}} <ref name="note1"/><br />
|Publication=Myriam Chimènes, {{und|Mécènes et musiciens: du salon au concert à Paris sous la IIIe République}} (Paris, 2004), p. 424 (abridged)<br/>{{bib|2011/13|Tchaikovsky Research Bulletin No. 1}} (February 2011), p. 50 (abridged, with English translation, p. 51)<br/>{{bib|2011/14|Tchaikovsky Research Bulletin No. 2}} (April 2011), p. 48 (complete, with English translation)<br/>{{bibx|2013/36|Чайковский. Новые материалы к творческой биографии}} (2013), p. 331 (with Russian translation)<br />
|Notes=<br />
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==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist<br />
|Original text={{right|8 Mars 1888}}<br />
{{centre|Madame!}}<br />
''M[ada]me de Benardaky'' voudrait beaucoup être invitée chez Vous demain. Oserai-je Vous prier de vouloir bien satisfaire le {{sic|desir|désir}} de cette dame?<br />
<br />
Votre bien dévoué,<br />
{{right|P. Tschaïkovsky}}<br />
<br />
|Translated text={{right|8 March 1888}}<br />
{{centre|Madame!}}<br />
''Madame [[Marie de Benardaky|de Benardaky]]'' would very much like to be invited to your place tomorrow. May I dare to ask you to fulfil this lady's wish? <ref name="note2"/><br />
<br />
Your most devoted,<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
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==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">The autograph was auctioned on 27 November 1990 in [[Paris]]. A photocopy of the original was kindly provided by Thierry Bodin of [http://www.franceantiq.fr/slam/autographes/default.asp Les Autographes] , the manuscript expert consulted when the letter was auctioned.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">[[Pauline Viardot]] did not fulfil Tchaikovsky's request, as is clear from her reply to this letter, which was published in Russian only and incorrectly dated to 1889 in {{und|Письма П. Виардо к русским знакомым}} (Letters from Pauline Viardot to Russian acquaintances), ''Советская музыка'' (1960), No. 8, p. 89-98 (97). We are most grateful to the [[Turgenev]] scholar Patrick Waddington for providing this reference.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett