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	<ref name="note1">This unpublished letter was described on the auctioneer's website as a "note to Mariya Nikolayevna." Among Tchaikovsky's known female correspondents only the actress [[Mariya Yermolova]] (1853–1928) and the soprano [[Mariya Klimentova-Muromtseva]] (1856–1946) have that name and patronymic. Since Tchaikovsky in this note refers to a promise to come to "listen" to his correspondent (rather than "see"), it presumably must have been addressed to [[Klimentova-Muromtseva]].</ref>		<ref name="note1">This unpublished letter was described on the auctioneer's website as a "note to Mariya Nikolayevna". Among Tchaikovsky's known female correspondents, only the actress [[Mariya Yermolova]] (1853–1928) and the soprano [[Mariya Klimentova-Muromtseva]] (1856–1946) have that name and patronymic. Since Tchaikovsky in this note refers to a promise to come to "listen" to his correspondent (rather than "see"), it presumably must have been addressed to [[Klimentova-Muromtseva]].</ref>
	<ref name="note2">The autograph was advertised for sale in December 2000 by R. R. Auction, Amherst (New Hampshire), with the following English translation: "I apologize that I could not keep my promise to come to listen to you. I have to spend a few more days working. Forgive me! Believe me, I would love very, very much to come, but the wise thing to do is to sit at home and finish my work on the opera ''The Enchantress''. Kissing your hand, P. Tchaikovsky".</ref>		<ref name="note2">The autograph was advertised for sale in December 2000 by R. R. Auction, Amherst (New Hampshire), with the following English translation: "I apologize that I could not keep my promise to come to listen to you. I have to spend a few more days working. Forgive me! Believe me, I would love very, very much to come, but the wise thing to do is to sit at home and finish my work on the opera ''The Enchantress''. Kissing your hand, P. Tchaikovsky".</ref>
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{{letterhead
|Date=10/22 February 1887
|To=[[Mariya Klimentova-Muromtseva]] <ref name="note1"/>
|Place=[[Maydanovo]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph={{locunknown}} <ref name="note2"/>
|Publication={{bibx|2010/3|Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen}} (2010), p. 16–17 (English translation; incomplete; addressee named as [[Mariya Yermolova]])<br/>{{bib|2011/13|Tchaikovsky Research Bulletin No. 1}} (February 2011), p. 9 (English translation; incomplete)
|Notes=
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==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">This unpublished letter was described on the auctioneer's website as a "note to Mariya Nikolayevna." Among Tchaikovsky's known female correspondents only the actress [[Mariya Yermolova]] (1853–1928) and the soprano [[Mariya Klimentova-Muromtseva]] (1856–1946) have that name and patronymic. Since Tchaikovsky in this note refers to a promise to come to "listen" to his correspondent (rather than "see"), it presumably must have been addressed to [[Klimentova-Muromtseva]].</ref>
<ref name="note2">The autograph was advertised for sale in December 2000 by R. R. Auction, Amherst (New Hampshire), with the following English translation: "I apologize that I could not keep my promise to come to listen to you. I have to spend a few more days working. Forgive me! Believe me, I would love very, very much to come, but the wise thing to do is to sit at home and finish my work on the opera ''The Enchantress''. Kissing your hand, P. Tchaikovsky".</ref>
</references>
[[Category:Letters without Texts]]