Letter 3800a
Tchaikovsky Research
| Date | 17 February/1 March 1889 |
|---|---|
| Addressed to | Paul Dultier |
| Where written | Leipzig |
| Language | French |
| Autograph Location | unknown [1] |
| Publication | Tchaikovsky Research Bulletin No. 2 (April 2011), p. 43 (excerpt only) |
Text and Translation
This incomplete text is taken from the extracts published in Swann Auction Galleries catalogue [2], which may contain differences in formatting and content from Tchaikovsky's original letter.
| French text (original) |
English translation By Luis Sundkvist and Brett Langston |
| [...] en été j'étais plonge dans un travail qui me prenait tout mon temps et maintenant je voyage et suis toujours empêche de répondre aux lettres que je reçois. Bientôt je serai a Paris [...] et Vous demanderai de vive voix pardon pour mon inexactitude et mon peu d'empenerent a rèponde à Vos bonnes lettres.
Au revoir! Je Vous écris où viendrai V[ous] voir dès que je serai à Paris. Je Vous embrasse. P. Tchaïkovsky |
[...] this summer I was engrossed in a task which took up all my time, and now I am travelling so that there is always something preventing me from replying to the letters I receive. I shall be in Paris soon [...] and I shall ask you in person to pardon my inexactitude and my lack of response to your kind letters.
Until we meet! I shall write to about where to come to see you as soon as I am in Paris. I embrace you. P. Tchaikovsky |
Notes and References
- ↑ The autograph was sold on 26 November 2013 by Swann Auction Galleries in New York. It had also been previously auctioned in 1952 by W. R. Benjamin Autographs (New York).
- ↑ See https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2333+++++247+&refno=++679126&saletype= (including a facsimile of the last page).
