Date	16/28 February 1878
Addressed to	Nadezhda von Meck
Where written	Florence
Language	Russian
Autograph Location	Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky House-Museum Archive (a3, No. 3128)
Publication	Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского, том 2 (1901), p. 115–116 (abridged) П. И. Чайковский. Переписка с Н. Ф. фон-Мекк, том 1 (1934), p. 214–216 П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том VII (1962), p. 121–123 To my best friend. Correspondence between Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck (1993), p. 182–183 (English translation) (abridged).

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