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Letters

These pages provide details about all of Tchaikovsky's 5,350 known letters, which were written to 389 different correspondents. The following information is given for each letter, where available:

• Date of the letter (in the form old style/new style)
• The name of the person(s) or organisation to which it was addressed
• The city or town where it was written
• The language of the original text
• The location of the original letter (autograph)
• Any publication of the letters (with links to entries in the Tchaikovsky Research database)
• Notes about the letters, including the whereabouts of manuscript copies.

The complete text and English translations are also given for some letters. Note that the term "letter" also includes telegrams and notes on visiting cards, as well as items addressed to the editors of journals for publication. The numbers are based on those used in the Soviet collected edition of Tchaikovsky's correspondence (published between 1959 and 1981), and volume 2 of The Tchaikovsky Handbook (Indiana University Press, 2002).

For news of previously unknown or unidentified letters by Tchaikovsky to correspondents from Russia, Europe and the USA, see our series of Tchaikovsky Research bulletins.

If you would like to help with translating Tchaikovsky's letters into English from Russian, French or German, then please contact info@tchaikovsky-research.net for more information.

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