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	\|Date=5/17 March 1889		\|Date=5/17 March 1889
	\|To=[[Daniel Rahter]]		\|To=[[Daniel Rahter]]
	\|Place=[[~~Hanover~~]]		\|Place=[[Hannover]]
	\|Language=German		\|Language=German
	\|Autograph=Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA): {{US-CA}}		\|Autograph=Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA): {{US-CA}}
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	Sittard bittet sehr dass Sie ihm ''Oneguine'' u[nd] ''Jungfr[au] v[on] Orleans'' schicken. Bitte, machen [Sie] das auf meine Kosten.		Sittard bittet sehr dass Sie ihm ''Oneguine'' u[nd] ''Jungfr[au] v[on] Orleans'' schicken. Bitte, machen [Sie] das auf meine Kosten.

	\|Translated text={{right\|''[[~~Hanover~~]]'' 17/5 March}}		\|Translated text={{right\|''[[Hannover]]'' 17/5 March}}
	{{centre\|Respected Herr [[Rahter]],}}		{{centre\|Respected Herr [[Rahter]],}}
	I did not receive the publisher's receipt from ''Herr Schäffer'' <ref name="note1"/> in [[Hamburg]]. Please write to him immediately asking him to send it to [[Paris]] (No. 14, Rue Richepanse). I shall stay in [[Paris]] for 15 days. I am very satisfied with [[Hamburg]]. The performance was truly splendid, and it was received in a very lively way by the audience <ref name="note2"/>. Your family will probably write to you about it. I have come to ''[[~~Hanover~~]]'' for twelve hours so as to finally be able to write some letters, since I have not been able to do so all this time. No one knows me here, and I am so glad to be left on my own for a bit that it is quite possible I may stay here one more day. I was very, very glad to see your dear wife, your children, and old M[ada]me De Lapre <ref name="note3"/>. Unfortunately, I could only stay for a very short time after our lunch, since I had to rush to the Ludwigsgarten, where a ''benefit concert'' by [[Laube]] was to take place <ref name="note4"/>. Like last year, everyone was very friendly towards me, and what was particularly flattering to me was the fact that ''[[Brahms]]'' stayed in [[Hamburg]] an extra day in order to hear [[Symphony No. 5\|the symphony]]		I did not receive the publisher's receipt from ''Herr Schäffer'' <ref name="note1"/> in [[Hamburg]]. Please write to him immediately asking him to send it to [[Paris]] (No. 14, Rue Richepanse). I shall stay in [[Paris]] for 15 days. I am very satisfied with [[Hamburg]]. The performance was truly splendid, and it was received in a very lively way by the audience <ref name="note2"/>. Your family will probably write to you about it. I have come to ''[[Hannover]]'' for twelve hours so as to finally be able to write some letters, since I have not been able to do so all this time. No one knows me here, and I am so glad to be left on my own for a bit that it is quite possible I may stay here one more day. I was very, very glad to see your dear wife, your children, and old M[ada]me De Lapre <ref name="note3"/>. Unfortunately, I could only stay for a very short time after our lunch, since I had to rush to the Ludwigsgarten, where a ''benefit concert'' by [[Laube]] was to take place <ref name="note4"/>. Like last year, everyone was very friendly towards me, and what was particularly flattering to me was the fact that ''[[Brahms]]'' stayed in [[Hamburg]] an extra day in order to hear [[Symphony No. 5\|the symphony]]

	Nevertheless, I am terribly tired and suffer greatly from ''homesickness''. Farewell, dear [[ Herr Rahter]].		Nevertheless, I am terribly tired and suffer greatly from ''homesickness''. Farewell, dear [[ Herr Rahter]].

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{{letterhead
|Date=5/17 March 1889
|To=[[Daniel Rahter]]
|Place=[[Hanover]]
|Language=German
|Autograph=Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA): {{US-CA}}
|Publication={{bibx|1960/54|Notes}}, Vol. 17, No. 4 (1960), p. 557<br/>{{bib|1976/64|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XV–А}} (1976), p. 72–73<br/>{{bibx|2001/9|Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen}}, Heft 8 (2001), p. 85 }}

==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=German
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text={{right|''Hannover'' 17/5 März}}
{{centre|Geehrter Herr Rahter}}
Den Verlagsschein von '' Herrn Schäffer'' habe ich in Hamburg nicht erhalten. Bitte, schreiben Sie ihm sogleich, er soll ihn nach Paris (14 Rue Richepanse) schicken. Ich bleibe in Paris 15 Tage. Ich bin mit Hamburg sehr zufrieden; die Aufführung war wirklich prächtig und die Aufnahme {{sic|seite|seite}} des Publicums eine sehr lebhafte. Die Ihrigen werden ihnen wahrscheinlich schreiben. Ich bin in ''Hannover'' für 12 Stunden gekommen um endlich Briefe zu schreiben, da diese ganze Zeit konnte ich es nicht. Hier kennt mich {{sic|keiner|kein}} Mensch und ich bin so froh {{sic|einbischen|ein bisschen}} allein zu bleiben, da es möglich ist dass ich noch einen ganzen Tag bleiben werde. Ich war sehr, sehr froh Ihre liebe Frau, die Kinder und die alte M[ada]me DeLapre zu sehen. Leider konnte ich nach {{sic|Mittag|dem Mittagessen}} nur sehr wenig Zeit bleiben, da musste ich eilen nach Ludwigsgarten wo ein '' Benefiz-Concert'' von Laube {{sic|stadtfand|stattfand}}. Alle waren wie im vorigen Jahre sehr liebenswürdig gegen mich, und was mir besonders schmeichelhaft war das ist eben dass ''Brahms'' einen Tag mehr in Hamburg blieb um die {{sic|Simpfonie|Sinfonie}} zu hören.

Ich bin trotzalledem aber fürchterlich müde und leide sehr an ''Heimweh''. Auf Wiedersehen, lieber Herr Rahter.
{{right|P. Tschaikowsky}}
Das ist wahr dass alle {{sic|Verlegern|Verleger}} in Deutschland machen mir jetzt die Kur.

Sittard bittet sehr dass Sie ihm ''Oneguine'' u[nd] ''Jungfr[au] v[on] Orleans'' schicken. Bitte, machen [Sie] das auf meine Kosten.

|Translated text={{right|''[[Hanover]]'' 17/5 March}}
{{centre|Respected Herr [[Rahter]],}}
I did not receive the publisher's receipt from ''Herr Schäffer'' <ref name="note1"/> in [[Hamburg]]. Please write to him immediately asking him to send it to [[Paris]] (No. 14, Rue Richepanse). I shall stay in [[Paris]] for 15 days. I am very satisfied with [[Hamburg]]. The performance was truly splendid, and it was received in a very lively way by the audience <ref name="note2"/>. Your family will probably write to you about it. I have come to ''[[Hanover]]'' for twelve hours so as to finally be able to write some letters, since I have not been able to do so all this time. No one knows me here, and I am so glad to be left on my own for a bit that it is quite possible I may stay here one more day. I was very, very glad to see your dear wife, your children, and old M[ada]me De Lapre <ref name="note3"/>. Unfortunately, I could only stay for a very short time after our lunch, since I had to rush to the Ludwigsgarten, where a ''benefit concert'' by [[Laube]] was to take place <ref name="note4"/>. Like last year, everyone was very friendly towards me, and what was particularly flattering to me was the fact that ''[[Brahms]]'' stayed in [[Hamburg]] an extra day in order to hear [[Symphony No. 5|the symphony]]

Nevertheless, I am terribly tired and suffer greatly from ''homesickness''. Farewell, dear [[ Herr Rahter]].
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
Yes, it is true that all publishers in Germany are now courting me.

[[Sittard]] would very much like you to send him ''[[Onegin]]'' and ''[[The Maid of Orleans]]''. Please do so at my expense.
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">Franz Schäffer was the manager of [[Daniel Rahter]]'s publishing house, where he had worked ever since it was set up. When the firm relocated to [[Leipzig]] after [[Rahter]]'s death (in 1891) and was taken over by his widow, Selma Rahter, Schäffer remained its manager. He continued to occupy a prominent position in the business even after [[Rahter]]'s son Johann Christian Daniel Rahter became joint owner and head of the firm in 1901. See {{bib|2006/6|Tschaikowsky in Hamburg. Eine Dokumentation}} (2006), p. 216, note 697.</ref>
<ref name="note2">At a Philharmonic Society concert in [[Hamburg]] on 3/15 March 1889 Tchaikovsky had conducted the first performance in Germany of his [[Fifth Symphony]].</ref>
<ref name="note3">During his brief stay in [[Hamburg]] Tchaikovsky had been invited to have lunch at [[Rahter]]'s house on 1/13 March. He was welcomed there by the publisher's wife, [[Selma Rahter]] (née Winter), and their children: Daniel (1873-1925), Ludwig (b. 1874), Hermine (b. 1877), and Selma (1879-1957). An elderly lady called Madame Laprée was also living with the Rahters, but it is not clear what her relation to the family was. [[Rahter]] himself was away on business in [[Saint Petersburg]] at the time. See {{bib|2006/6| Tschaikowsky in Hamburg. Eine Dokumentation}} (2006), p. 80, and the accompanying notes.</ref>
<ref name="note4">[[Laube]]'s benefit concert at the Ludwigsgarten venue on 1/13 March 1889 had featured, among works by [[Liszt]], [[Berlioz]], and [[Bizet]], two movements from the [[Serenade for String Orchestra]]: ''Larghetto elegiaco'' and ''Valse''. The latter two pieces were received very warmly, and the composer was given an ovation by the audience. See [[Letter 3818]] to [[Modest Tchaikovsky]], 5/17 March 1889. For more details of this concert, see {{bib|2006/6| Tschaikowsky in Hamburg. Eine Dokumentation}} (2006), p. 80.</ref>
</references>