Date	26 April/8 May 1891
Addressed to	[unidentified male]
Where written	New York
Language	German
Autograph Location	New Haven (Connecticut, USA): Yale University. Irving S. Gilmore Music Library (John Carter Glenn coll., MSS 9/1/1)
Publication	Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen, Heft 7 (2000), p. 42 Чайковский. Новые документы и материалы (2003), p. 86
Notes	To an unidentified correspondent [1]

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German text (original)		English translation Copyright © 2010 by Luis Sundkvist
Geehrter Herr!		Dear Sir!
Leider ist es mir unmöglich Ihnen über Musik etwas zu schreiben, da ich dazu keine Zeit frei habe. Hoffentlich tuhe [= tue] ich das, wenn ich nach meine[r] liebe[n] Heimat zurückkehre.		Unfortunately, it is impossible for me to write to you anything about music, because I do not have the time for this. I hope to be able to do so when I return to my dear home country.
Ihr ergebenster		Your most devoted
P. Tschaïkowsky		P. Tchaikovsky

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Note:

1. On 26 April/8 May 1891 Tchaikovsky was in New York, in the middle of his North American concert tour. On the day that he wrote this letter, he also noted in his diary: "Am beginning to have difficulties finding time for letters and this diary. Visitors besiege me: reporters, composers, librettists [...] but the main thing is whole piles of letters from all corners of America with requests for autographs, to which I reply very conscientiously". It is very likely that this letter was Tchaikovsky's reply to one such request — note by Alexander Poznansky in «Письма Чайковского в Йельском Университете (США)» (2003), p. 86. Diary entry translated by Wladimir Lakond in The Diaries of Tchaikovsky (1973), p. 313 [back]

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