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{{letterhead
|Date=13/25 September 1874
|To=[[Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov]]
|Place=[[Moscow]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph={{locunknown}} <ref name="note1"/>
|Publication={{bib|1959/50|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том V}} (1959), p. 365
|Notes=Typed copy in [[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}}
}}

==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Anna-Maria Leonard
|Original text={{right|Москва<br/>13 сентября}}
Николай Андреевич, будьте так добры, пришлите в наискорейшем времени Вашу последнюю симфонию, которая стоит на программе здешних концертов и с нетерпением ожидается всеми нами. Как Вы поживаете и здорова ли Надежда Николаевна? Как идёт Ваше руководство и не сочинили ли Вы ещё что-нибудь новое, за исключением квартета, который, вероятно, уже давно кончен? Если бы Вы дали себе труд самым лаконическим образом на все означенные вопросы мне ответить, то весьма был бы благодарен. Правда ли, что Балакирев написал оперу? Очень жалею, что не живу с Вами в одном городе; в настоящее время о многом мне бы нужно с Вами побеседовать, — но никак не письменно.

Искренно Вам преданный,
{{right|П. Ч.}}

|Translated text={{right|[[Moscow]]<br/>13 September}}
[[Nikolay Andreyevich]], please be so good as to send, as quickly as possible, your latest symphony, which is on the programme for the concerts here and which we are all waiting for impatiently <ref name="note2"/>. How are you, and how is [[Nadezhda Nikolayevna]]'s health? How is your guide going <ref name="note3"/>, and have you composed anything new, apart from the quartet <ref name="note4"/>, which was probably finished long ago? If you were to take the trouble to answer all these questions in the briefest way, I would be very grateful. Is it true that [[Balakirev]] has written an opera? I am very sorry that I do not live in the same city as you; there is so much that I would need to talk to you about at the moment — but not in writing.

Your sincerely devoted,
{{right|P. T.}}
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">The autograph was sold by January 2013 by Lion Heart Autographs, [[New York]]. A scan of the autograph was kindly provided by David Lowenherz, the director of this company, to the Tchaikovsky Research project. Polina Vaidman, the senior curator of the Tchaikovsky House-Museum in [[Klin]], confirmed its authenticity.</ref>
<ref name="note2">[[Rimsky-Korsakov]]'s Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 32, which would receive its first performance on 20 December 1874/1 January 1875 at a Russian Musical Society concert in [[Moscow]] — see Tchaikovsky's review in his article [[The Fifth Symphony Concert. The Second Quartet Series. The Italian Opera]] (1875).</ref>
<ref name="note3">Tchaikovsky is referring to [[Rimsky-Korsakov]]'s guide to orchestration, on which he had begun work in 1873, but abandoned the following year. The guide ultimately evolved into the book ''Principles of Orchestration'' (Основы оркестровки), which was completed and published after his death.</ref>
<ref name="note4">[[Rimsky-Korsakov]]'s String Quartet in F major, Op. 12 (1875).</ref>
</references>
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