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|Date=2/14 August 1890 <br />
|To=[[Hermann Fernow]]<br />
|Place=[[Frolovskoye]]<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Autograph={{locunknown}} <ref name="note1"/><br />
|Publication={{bibx|1998/46|Čajkovskijs Homosexualität und sein Tod. Legenden und Wirklichkeit}} (1998), p. 184 (abridged)<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
This incomplete text is based on the extracts published in Sotheby's 1996 catalogue <ref name="note3"/>, which may contain differences in formatting and content from Tchaikovsky's original letter. <br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|14 August 1890}}<br />
{{...}} J'attendrai avec une bien vive impatience une réponse décisive à la ''grande question'' de l'Amérique. Je compte bien sur votre discrétion, cher M[onsieu]r Fernow. Vous aurez la bonté d'adresser votre prochaine lettre à Moscou, aux soins de ''P. I. Jurgenson'' ; il sera toujours au courant de mes pérégrinations {{...}} un grand voyage à l'intérieur, que je terminerai par un séjour de 2 mois à ''Tiflis (Caucase)''. <br />
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Je Vous serre bien cordialement la main et tout en Vous priant de {{sic|transmettres|transmettre}} mes salutations à M[ada]me Votre femme et à M[ademois]elle Votre sœur, aussi qu'a M[ada]me Schiller, je signe Votre bien dévoué,<br />
{{right|P. Tschaïkovsky}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|14 August 1890 <ref name="note2"/>}}<br />
{{...}} I shall await with most fervent anticipation a definitive response to the ''great question'' of America. I am certainly relying on your discretion, dear Monsieur [[Hermann Fernow|Fernow]]. You will be so good as to address your next letter to [[Moscow]], to the care of ''[[P. I. Jurgenson]]''; he will always be informed of my peregrinations {{...}} a great interior voyage, which I shall conclude with a 2-month stay in ''[[Tiflis]] (Caucuses)''. <br />
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I shake your hand most cordially, while asking you to convey my greetings to Madame your wife and Mademoiselle your sister <ref name="note4"/>, and also to Madame Schiller <ref name="note5"/>, I sign your most devoted,<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">Auctioned on 6 December 1996 by Sotheby's, [[London]].</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">Previously numbered 4197a based on presumed old-style date (14/26 August), but its contents suggest that new style (i.e. 2/14 August) is more likely.</ref><br />
<ref name="note3">''Sotheby's. Fine Printed and Manuscript Music. London, 6 December 1996'', No. 269, including facsimile of last page (transcribed here by Professor Thomas Kohlhase).</ref><br />
<ref name="note4">Probably [[Anna Fernow]], whom Tchaikovsky had known since 1879.</ref><br />
<ref name="note5">Possibly the pianist Madeleine Schiller (1843-1911), who on 31 October 1881 {{OS}} had given the world premiere of Tchaikovsky's [[Piano Concerto No. 2]] in [[New York]].</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett