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	\|Translated text={{right\|''[[Saint Petersburg]]''<br/>15 September}}		\|Translated text={{right\|''[[Saint Petersburg]]''<br/>15 September}}
	{{centre\|Dear friend!}}		{{centre\|Dear friend!}}
	I attempted to set about correcting [[Messer]]'s concoction, but it turned out to be impossible without the full score. At every step I'm encountering, apart from childish blunders and errors, places that do not agree with the full score — and I can't recall the passages where they disagree. Lord! Could I have devised anything more stupid in my fantasies than not to transcribe the opera for piano myself? After all, it's now twice the work for me! The most unpleasant thing is that I cannot even be angry with poor [[Messer]]. By all appearances, he ''tried'', possibly his utmost, and he must have perspired greatly over the work. But what's to be done, if nature has not bestowed on him the talent, the sense, the flair. There's not a single page without something impossible!		I attempted to set about correcting [[Messer]]'s concoction, but it turned out to be impossible without the full score. At every step I'm encountering, apart from childish blunders and errors, places that do not agree with the full score — and I can't recall the passages where they disagree. Lord! Could I have devised anything more stupid in my fantasies than not to transcribe the opera for piano myself? After all, it's now twice the work for me! The most unpleasant thing is that I cannot even be angry with poor [[Messer]]. By all appearances, he ''tried'', possibly his utmost, and he must have perspired greatly over the work. But what's to be done, if nature has not bestowed on him the talent, the sense, the flair? There's not a single page without something impossible!

	I'm writing this at the point that I'll need to have the full score of the 2nd act, and therefore I ask you to deliver it to me on the day of my arrival. I'll be sending you all my work from the country very soon.		I'm writing this at the point that I'll need to have the full score of the 2nd act, and therefore I ask you to deliver it to me on the day of my arrival. I'll be sending you all my work from the country very soon.

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{{letterhead
|Date=15/27 September 1879
|To=[[Pyotr Jurgenson]]
|Place=[[Saint Petersburg]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 2265)
|Publication={{bib|1938/40|П. И. Чайковский. Переписка с П. И. Юргенсоном ; том 1}} (1938), p. 114–115<br/>{{bib|1963/6|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том VIII}} (1963), p. 367
}}
==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Brett Langston
|Original text={{right|''С[анкт]-Петербург''<br/>15 сент[ября]}}
{{centre|Милый друг!}}
Я пробовал приступить к исправлению Мессеровской стряпни, — но это оказалось невозможно без партитуры. На каждом шагу я встречаю, кроме ребяческих промахов и ошибок, места несогласные с партитурой, — а в чем несогласие, припомнить не могу. Господи! Можно ли было выдумать что-нибудь глупее моей фантазии не самому перекладывать оперу для ф[орте]п[иано]? Ведь теперь для меня двойная работа! Всего неприятнее то, что я даже не могу сердиться на бедного Мессера. По всему видно, что он ''старался'', елико возможно, и, должно быть, сильно потел над работой. Но что же делать, если от природы ему не дано таланта, чутья, нюха? Нет ни одной странички сколько-нибудь возможной!

Пишу это я к тому, что мне необходимо будет взять партитуру 2-го действия с собой, и поэтому в день моего приезда по прошу тебя доставить мне её. Из деревни я тебе очень скоро вышлю всю работу.

Приеду, как уже писал тебе, в среду 19-го числа с курьерским и остановлюсь не у Н[иколая] Гр[игорьевича], как хотел, а у ''Дюссо'', куда и прошу тебя убедительнейшим образом приехать вскоре после прихода поезда, ибо о многом нужно по болтать. Остановлюсь у ''Дюссо'', ибо это для меня удобнее по разным причинам.
{{right|Твой, П. Чайковский}}

|Translated text={{right|''[[Saint Petersburg]]''<br/>15 September}}
{{centre|Dear friend!}}
I attempted to set about correcting [[Messer]]'s concoction, but it turned out to be impossible without the full score. At every step I'm encountering, apart from childish blunders and errors, places that do not agree with the full score — and I can't recall the passages where they disagree. Lord! Could I have devised anything more stupid in my fantasies than not to transcribe the opera for piano myself? After all, it's now twice the work for me! The most unpleasant thing is that I cannot even be angry with poor [[Messer]]. By all appearances, he ''tried'', possibly his utmost, and he must have perspired greatly over the work. But what's to be done, if nature has not bestowed on him the talent, the sense, the flair. There's not a single page without something impossible!

I'm writing this at the point that I'll need to have the full score of the 2nd act, and therefore I ask you to deliver it to me on the day of my arrival. I'll be sending you all my work from the country very soon.

As I already wrote to you, I'll be coming on Wednesday the 19th by express courier, and I won't be stopping at [[Nikolay Grigoryevich]]'s, but rather at the ''Dusseaux'', where I urge you to come in the most pressing manner shortly after the train arrives, because there is much to discuss. I'll be staying at the ''Dusseaux'' because for various reasons it's more convenient for me.
{{right|Yours, P. Tchaikovsky}}
}}