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{{letterhead
|Date=28 February/12 March 1893
|To=[[Francis Arthur Jones]]
|Place=[[Klin]]
|Language=French
|Autograph={{locunknown}} <ref name="note1"/>
|Publication={{bibx|2010/4|Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen}} (2010), p. 11 (addressee unidentified) <br/>{{bib|2011/13|Tchaikovsky Research Bulletin No. 1}} (February 2011), p. 78 (with English translation, p. 79)<br/>{{bibx|2013/36|Чайковский. Новые материалы к творческой биографии}} (2013), p. 272 (with Russian translation)
|Notes=
}}

==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=French
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text={{right|Klin<br/>28 Février/12 Mars 1893}}
{{centre|Cher Monsieur!}}
Vous me demandez d'où est tiré le fragment que je Vous ai envoyé? Malheureusement j'ai complètement oublié quelle est la phrase musicale que je Vous ai communiquée.

Veuillez me le faire savoir.

Bien à Vous,
{{right|P. Tschaïkovsky}}

|Translated text={{right|[[Klin]]<br/>28 February/12 March 1893}}
{{centre|Dear Sir!}}
You ask me about where the fragment I sent you is taken from. Unfortunately I've completely forgotten what musical phrase I communicated to you.

Please let me know <ref name="note2"/>.

Yours ever,
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">The autograph was sold on 13 January 2010 by R. R. Auction, Amherst (New Hampshire) — see [http://www.icollector.com/Pyotr-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky_i9203961].</ref>
<ref name="note2">Enclosed with [[Letter 4856a]] to [[Francis Arthur Jones]] on 5/17 February 1893, Tchaikovsky had, in accordance with the latter's request for a small fragment from one of his manuscripts, sent an autograph musical quotation from the finale of ''[[The Queen of Spades]]'' (but without stating the title of the work). [[Jones]] had then written back from England on 27 February 1893 {{NS}} to thank the composer and to ask him to name the work from which the quotation was taken. See the publication of [[Letter 4856a]] in {{bib|1990/80|Советская музыка}} (1990), p. 92–93, and the accompanying information provided by Polina Vaidman and Lyudmila Korabelnikova. At the time it was not clear whether Tchaikovsky replied to [[Jones]]'s letter of 27 February {{NS}}, but now that the above letter has come to light it is clear that he did. What still remains uncertain is whether [[ Jones]] sent Tchaikovsky a third letter with a copy of the musical phrase, because according to the commentary in {{bib|1990/80|Советская музыка}} (1990), p. 92–93, only two letters from [[Jones]] have survived in the archives at [[Klin]].</ref>
</references>

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