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|Date=19/31 May 1889<br />
|To=[[Ethel Smyth]]<br />
|Place=[[Frolovskoye]]<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Autograph={{locunknown}} <ref name="note1a"/><br />
|Publication={{bibx|1998/46|Čajkovskijs Homosexualität und sein Tod. Legenden und Wirklichkeit}} (1998), p. 187<br />
|Notes=Photocopy in [[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} }}<br />
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==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist<br />
|Original text={{right|''Kline, près [de] Moscou''<br/>19/31 Mai 1889}}<br />
{{centre|Chère Mademoiselle!}}<br />
Je viens de recevoir Votre lettre qui m'a longtemps suivi avant de m'attrapper. je Vous recommande beaucoup Gabriel ''Fauré'', organiste de la Madeleine. Vous pouvez trouver son adresse dans un magasin de musique par example chez ''Durand, Place de la Madeleine, 4''. <br />
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Tout à Vous,<br />
{{right|P. Tschaïkowsky}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|''[[Klin]], near [[Moscow]]''<br/>19/31 May 1889}}<br />
{{centre|Dear Mademoiselle!}}<br />
I have just received your letter, which has been pursuing me for a long time before finally catching up with me <ref name="note1"/>. I very much recommend to you [[Gabriel Fauré|Gabriel ''Fauré'']], organist at the Madeleine <ref name="note2"/>. You can find his address in a music shop such as ''Durand, Place de la Madeleine, 4'' <ref name="note3"/>. <br />
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Yours ever,<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky }}<br />
}}<br />
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==Notes and References==<br />
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<ref name="note1a">The autograph was auctioned on 16-17 March 1995 by J. A. Stargardt, [[Berlin]].</ref><br />
<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky had only recently returned to his house in [[Frolovskoye]] following his return to Russia after his second European concert tour.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">''L'église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine'' in [[Paris]], a Roman Catholic church consecrated in 1842.</ref><br />
<ref name="note3">Tchaikovsky seems to have met [[Fauré]] for the first time during his stay in Paris in June 1886. See the diary entry for 7/19 June 1886 translated by Wladimir Lakond in {{bib|1973/106|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1973), p. 86. They met again in [[Paris]] in March–April 1889. As Gerald Norris has observed in {{bib|1980/112|Stanford, the Cambridge Jubilee and Tchaikovsky}} (1980), "[[Fauré]] deeply admired his Russian colleague and presented him with signed copies of his First and Second Piano Quartets, the latter being inscribed 'To my dear master and friend P. Tchaikovsky from his affectionately devoted [[Gabriel Fauré]]'" (p. 323).</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett