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{{letterhead
|Date=10/22 January 1888
|To=[[Josef Sittard]]
|Place=[[Hamburg]]
|Language=German
|Autograph=Tübingen (Germany): {{priv}}
|Publication={{bib|1979/101|Musiker der Spätromantik}} (1979), p. 77 (abridged) {{bib|1981/80|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVII}} (1981), p. 244 (abridged) {{bib|2006/6|Tschaikowsky in Hamburg. Eine Dokumentation}} (2006), p. 67-68
}}

==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=German
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text={{right|Hamburg 22. Jan[uar] 1888}}
{{center|Hochgeehrter Herr Sittard!}}
Verzeihen Sie mir, um Gottes wilen, daß ich Sie betrogen habe. Ich konnte wahrhaftig nicht ins Theater gehen, obwohl ich möchte es recht gern thun. Ich mußte den ganzen Tag mit allerlei Sachen beschäftigt sein die mich gehindert haben meine {{sic|Packette zu machen|Koffer zu packen}} und ich muß durchaus heute fahren.

Herzlichsten Dank für Ihre Freundlichkeit gegen mich! Ich werde nie vergessen wie Sie für mich gut und liebenswürdig waren. Wollen wir hoffen, daß wir uns noch sehen werden. Grüßen {{sic|Si|Sie}} Frau Sittard und vergessen mich {{sic|nich|nicht}}.

Von Leipzig schicke ich Ihnen mein Bild, aber ''à charge de revanche''!!!

Ihr ergebener,
{{right|P. Tschaikowsky}}
''Meine Adresse ist Berlin'', 37, ''Leipzigerstraße'', ''Bote u[nd] Bock''

|Translated text={{right|[[Hamburg]] 22 January 1888}}
{{center|Highly respected Herr [[Sittard]]!}}
Forgive me, for God's sake, for having deceived you. I really could not come to the theatre, even though I would very much have liked to do so. I had to occupy myself all day long with all kinds of things which have prevented me from packing my bags, and I must absolutely set off today <ref name="note1"/>.

I thank you most sincerely for your kindness towards me! I shall never forget how good and kind you were to me. Let us hope that we may yet see one another <ref name="note2"/>. Give my regards to Mrs Sittard and do not forget me.

I shall send you my photograph from [[Leipzig]], but ''on condition that you repay me in kind''!!!

Yours devotedly,
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
''My address is Berlin'', 37, ''Leipzigerstraße'', ''Bote and Bock''
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">[[Hamburg]] on 8/20 January 1888, at which he conducted the [[Serenade for String Orchestra]], the [[Piano Concerto No. 1]] (soloist [[Vasily Sapelnikov]]), and the ''Theme and Variations'' from the [[Suite No. 3]]. Although [[Sittard]] had written a rather unfavourable (and prejudiced) review of this concert, in which, despite praising the "thematic, contrapuntal, and harmonic artistry" of the ''Variations'', he had observed how a Russian could never attain the "free spiritual heights" of German music, he did treat Tchaikovsky with great warmth and hospitality. It seems that they had agreed to meet at the city's opera-house to attend a performance of [[Wagner]]'s ''Lohengrin''. Tchaikovsky, however, had then decided to leave [[Hamburg]] that evening and travel to [[Berlin]], the next stop of his European concert tour — see {{bib|2006/6| Tschaikowsky in Hamburg. Eine Dokumentation}} (2006), p. 57–58, 68.</ref>
<ref name="note2">[[Sittard]] would in fact call on Tchaikovsky in his hotel room that very same evening in order to say goodbye. See the diary entry for 10/22 January 1888: "A still more unexpected visit of [[Sittard]] (I bluffed him—did not go to the theatre)" — translated by Wladimir Lakond in {{bib|1973/106|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1973), p. 225.</ref>
</references>

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