Date	23 March/4 April 1889
Addressed to	Léonce Détroyat
Where written	Paris
Language	French
Autograph Location	unknown
Publication	Vente à Paris – Drouot-Richelieu. Mercredi 8 avril 1992, salle no. 7 (Paris, 1992), lot no. 132 (abridged) [1]
Notes	Autograph auctioned in Paris in 1992[2] For a detailed commentary on this letter, see "I would like something very poetic and at the same time very simple, intimate and human!" (Tchaikovsky Research Bulletin No.2), p. 37.

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French text (original)		English translation Copyright © 2011 by Luis Sundkvist
4 Avril [18]89		4 April 1889
Cher Mr Détroyat!		Dear Mr Détroyat!
Je serai exact au rendez-Vous.		I shall come punctually to our rendezvous.
A demain!		Till tomorrow!
P. Tschaïkovsky		P. Tchaikovsky

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Note:

1. A scan from this auction catalogue was kindly provided by Lucinde Braun [back]
2. A photocopy of the original was kindly provided by Thierry Bodin of Les Autographes , the manuscript expert consulted when the letter was auctioned [back]

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