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|Date=18/30 July 1893<br />
|To=[[Sergey Taneyev]]<br />
|Place=[[Moscow]]<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 400)<br />
|Publication={{bib|1951/54|П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма}} (1951), p. 193<br/>{{bib|1981/80|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVII}} (1981), p. 128<br />
|Notes=Original incorrectly dated "19 July" {{OS}} <ref name="note1"/><br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|{{sic|19|18}} июля}}<br />
{{centre|Милый друг!}}<br />
Я получил твою записочку, возвратившись домой за полчаса до отъезда в Клин. Отложить отъезд по многим причинам решительно не могу. Отчего ты здесь? Я был несказанно удивлён твоей записочкой, ибо воображал тебя в Селище. Вероятно, ты очень занят инструментовкой оперы. Я тоже еду домой, чтобы засесть за работу. Нужно инструментовать: 1) симфонию и 2) фортепианный концерт. Не можешь ли приехать ко мне, например, в субботу вечером, так, чтобы и себя и меня не оторвать от работы? Вообще напиши мне два слова объяснения, почему и как ты до сих пор здесь. Честное слово, был бы страшно рад тебя повидать, но остаться сегодня не могу.<br />
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До свидания!<br />
{{right|Твой, П. Чайковский}}<br />
<br />
|Translated text={{right|{{sic|19|18}} July}}<br />
{{centre|Dear friend!}}<br />
I received your little note on my way home, around half an hour before leaving for [[Klin]]. There were many reasons why I absolutely cannot delay my departure. Why are you here? I was unutterably astonished by your little note, for I imagined you to be at Selishche <ref name="note2"/>. You are probably very busy orchestrating the opera <ref name="note3"/>. I'm also going home to sit down to work. I need to orchestrate: 1) the symphony and 2) the piano concerto <ref name="note4"/>. Couldn't you come over on, say, Saturday evening, so that neither of us shall have to tear ourselves away from work? Write me a couple of words anyway, explaining why and how you're still here. Honestly, I should have been terribly glad to have seen you, but I'm unable to stay today.<br />
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Until we meet,<br />
{{right|Yours, P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
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<ref name="note1">Corrected on the basis of other letters indicating that Tchaikovsky arrived home at [[Klin]] on the evening 18/30 July 1893.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">[[Fyodor Maslov]] and his family had an estate at Selishche, in Oryol province, where [[Sergey Taneyev]] often spent the summer.</ref><br />
<ref name="note3">[[Taneyev]]'s opera ''Oresteya''.</ref><br />
<ref name="note4">Tchaikovsky's [[Symphony No. 6]] and [[Piano Concerto No. 3]].</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett