Letter 4938

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 22 May/3 June 1893
Addressed to Frits Hartvigson
Where written London
Language German
Autograph Location unknown [1]
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVII (1981), p. 100–101 (abridged)

Text and Translation

German text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
London
3 Juni 1893

Weder heute noch morgen ist es nur leider unmöglich mit Ihnen Abends zusammen sein! Heute diniere ich in der Russischer Gesandschaft und morgen bei De-Munk. Also hoffentlich sehen wir uns die künftige Woche! Ich umarme Sie, mein lieber Freund.

P. Tschaïkowsky

London
3 June 1893

Unfortunately I cannot be with you either today or tomorrow evening! Today I am having dinner at the Russian embassy, and tomorrow with De-Munk. So hopefully we shall see each other next week! I embrace you, dear friend.

Notes and References

  1. The autograph was advertised for sale by Kotte Autographs, Rosshaupten, in January 2021 [1]. It had been previously sold in September 2018 by R. R. Auctions, Boston [2], on 22 October 2015 by Swann Auction Galleries, New York, and in 1979 by J. Stargardt, Marburg.