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|Date=24 November/6 December 1892<br />
|To=[[Paul Collin]]<br />
|Place=[[Saint Petersburg]]<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Autograph=[[Paris]] (France): {{priv}}<br />
|Publication=''{{bibx|1960/11|Советская музыка}}'' (1960), No. 5, p. 74 (Russian translation)<br/>{{bib|1979/112|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVI-Б}} (1979), p. 197<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|24 Nov[embre]/6 Déc[embre] ''St. {{sic|Petersbourg|Pétersbourg}}''}}<br />
{{centre|Cher et très respecté poète!}}<br />
Veuillez de grâce m'excuser de ce que j'ai tant tardé à Vous répondre. J'ai en ce moment un nouvel opéra et un nouveau ballet à monter au Théâtre Impérial et c'est à peine si une ou deux fois par semaine je trouve le temps de remplir mes devoirs épistolaires. C'est avec le plus vif plaisir que je remplis Votre désir et soyez persuadé, cher poète, que je suis tout fier de figurer dans Votre album parmi tant de maîtres illustres!<br />
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Recevez l'assurance de mes meilleurs sentiments pour mon cher poète français dont j'espère encore avoir l'honneur et le plaisir {{sic|d'illustrer|de illustrer}} musicalement quelques belles pièces.<br />
{{centre|Bien à Vous}}<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|24 November/6 December ''[[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]]''}}<br />
{{centre|Dear and most respected poet!}}<br />
Please be so kind as to forgive me for having been so late in replying to you <ref name="note1"/>. At present I have a new opera and a new ballet being staged at the Imperial Theatre <ref name="note2"/>, and it is scarcely once or twice a week that I can find the time to fulfil my epistolary duties. It is with the greatest of pleasure that I carry out your wish and be assured, dear poet, that I am proud to be added to your album along with so many illustrious masters! <ref name="note3"/><br />
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Please accept my best regards, my dear French poet, and I hope once again to have the honour and the pleasure of depicting some of your lovely pieces in music.<br />
{{centre|Yours sincerely}}<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
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==Notes and References==<br />
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<ref name="note1">|[[Paul Collin]]'s letter to Tchaikovsky has not survived.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">The opera ''[[Iolanta]]'' and the ballet ''[[The Nutcracker]]''.</ref><br />
<ref name="note3">Tchaikovsky enclosed an autograph extract from the romance ''Rondel'', No. 6 of the [[Six French Songs, Op. 65]] (1888), which was one of four from the collection he had set to [[Paul Collin]]'s words.</ref></div>Brett