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|Date=7/19 August 1888<br />
|To=[[Anatoly Tchaikovsky]]<br />
|Place=[[Frolovskoye]]<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 3194)<br />
|Publication={{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 501<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|''7 августа''}}<br />
Голубчик Толя! Прости, ради Бога, что опять карточкой ограничиваюсь. Я немножко поболел от простуды (дом ужасно сырой и холодный, и я теперь уж начну топить) и вследствие того я запустил свою работу. Нужно на всех парах работать, дабы кончить вовремя. У меня вот уже 2 недели гостят ''Лароши''. Сначала я немного тяготился ими (или, лучше сказать, ''ей''), но теперь привык. Знаешь ли, до чего они дошли? Им без меня буквально нечего есть бы было. Черт знает до чего эти люди запутались! Погода стоит изумительно подлая: такого лета я ещё никогда не переживал. Жду Модеста, который теперь в Каменке. В общем все обстоит благополучно. Целую тебя, голубчик. Какой ты скромный: Ипполитов-Иванов прислал мне газету «Кавказ» с твоей речью. Молодец Толя!<br />
{{right|Твой, П. Чайковский}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|''7 August''}}<br />
Golubchik [[Tolya]]! For God's sake forgive me for again confining myself to a card. I'm somewhat unwell from chills (the house is awfully damp and cold, and I'm now already starting to heat it) and as a consequence I've been neglecting my work <ref name="note1"/>. I need to work at full blast if I'm to finish on time. I've had the ''[[Laroche]]s'' staying here for 2 weeks. At first I found them (or, more accurately, ''her'') something of a burden, but now I've grown accustomed. Did you know what had happened to them? Without me they would literally have had nothing to eat. Heaven knows what a mess these people are in! The weather is astonishingly foul: I've never experienced a summer like this. I'm expecting [[Modest]], who's now at [[Kamenka]]. In general, everything is propitious. I kiss you, golubchik. What a modest one you are: [[Ippolitov-Ivanov]] sent me the "Caucasus" newspaper with your speech <ref name="note2"/>. Good for [[Tolya]]!<br />
{{right|Yours, P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
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<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky was working on the orchestration of his [[Symphony No. 5]], which was due to be performed at a concert in November.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">In a letter dated 20 July/1 August 1888, [[Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov]] had sent Tchaikovsky a newspaper cutting of one of his brother [[Anatoly]]'s speeches as court prosecutor in [[Tiflis]].</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett