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|Date=12/24 May 1888<br />
|To=[[Vadim Peresleni]]<br />
|Place=[[Frolovskoye]]<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Autograph={{locunknown}}<br />
|Publication={{bibx|2012/1|Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen}}, Heft 19 (2012), p. 105 (original), p. 106 (German translation).<br />
|Notes=Photocopy in [[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} <br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=Russian<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|12 мая<br/>г[ород] Клин, с[ело] Фроловское}}<br />
Дима! Не только не 2 беленьких, а просто одну красненькую. Быть может в конце месяца ещё дам. Теперь я вследствие некоторых обстоятельств очень стеснён в деньгах. Сердись — не сердись, а больше не могу, да и то неохотно. Как скучно, что ты даже в виде исключения никогда не можешь отнестись ко мне иначе как с вымогательством. Надоел. Впрочем, повторяю, в конце месяца дам больше может быть и до беленькой дойдет. Посылаю в простом письме.<br />
{{right|П. Чайковский}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|12 May<br/>Town of [[Klin]], village of [[Frolovskoye]]}}<br />
[[Dima]]! Not only do I not have two whites, but merely a single red <ref name="note1"/>. Perhaps at the end of the month I'll give you more. Due to various circumstances my funds are currently very restricted. Whether you're angry or not, there's nothing more I can do, even if I wanted to. How tiresome it is that, without exception, you never behave towards me as anything other than a blackmailer. You are a pest. However, I repeat, at the end of the month I may be able to give you more, even up to a white. I'll send it by ordinary letter.<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
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<ref name="note1">The terms "white" and "red" were colloquially used at this time in Russia to refer respectively to the 50 and 10 ruble banknotes then in circulation. Tchaikovsky was replying to a letter from [[Vadim Peresleni]] dated 7/19 May 1888, in which the latter asked for "no less than two whites" in order to settle his debts — note based on information from Ada Aynbinder in {{bib|2012/1}} (2012).</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett