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Letter 2550a
| Date | 18/30 September 1884 |
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| Addressed to | Louis de Fourcaud |
| Where written | Pleshcheyevo |
| Language | French |
| Autograph Location | University
of Texas. Harry Ransom Center (Austin, Texas). Carlton Lake
Collection of French Manuscripts (see: http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00291p10.xml  ).
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| Publication | Not previously published |
| Notes | For a detailed commentary on this letter, see "I would like something very poetic and at the same time very simple, intimate and human!" (Tchaikovsky Research Bulletin No.2), p. 43–46. |
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French text (original) |
English translation |
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| Podolsk, près Moscou 18/30 Sept[embre] 1884. |
[Pleshcheyevo
in] Podolsk [district], near Moscow 18/30 September 1884 |
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| Monsieur! | Monsieur! | |
| Permettez moi de Vous remercier bien vivement pour l'honneur et l'extrème [= extrême] plaisir que je Vous dois de pouvoir m'associer à tant de musiciens éminents pour concourir à une publication dont le caractère m'est doublement simpathique [= sympathique]. | Allow me to thank you most fervently for the honour and extreme pleasure for which I am obliged to you in being able to join so many eminent musicians collaborating with a publication whose character is doubly agreeable to me. | |
| C'est avec le plus grand empressement que je me suis appliqué, dès que je l'ai pu, à la composition du petit morceau que j'ai l'honneur de Vous envoyer, en Vous priant de vouloir bien le remettre à M. le Directeur du Gaulois. | It is with the greatest haste that I have applied myself—as soon as I was able to do so—to the composition of the small piece [Impromptu-caprice] which I am honoured to send you, and I would ask you to be so kind as to forward it to the Director of Le Gaulois. | |
| Sa [= Si] ma bonne étoile me conduit à Paris, croyez, Monsieur, que ce sera pour moi un doux devoir de me présenter chez V[ou]s et de Vous remercier de vive voix pour l'attention flatteuse que Vous voulez bien me témoigner. | If my lucky star takes me to Paris, believe me, Monsieur, when I say that it shall be a sweet duty for me to call on you and to thank you in person for the flattering attention which you are so kind as to bestow upon me. | |
| Recevez, Monsieur, l'expression de mes sentiments les plus distingué |
Please accept, Monsieur, this assurance of my finest sentiments. | |
| P. Tschaïkovsky | P. Tchaikovsky |
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