Date	28 February/12 March 1893
Addressed to	Francis Arthur Jones
Where written	Klin
Language	French
Autograph Location	unknown; sold by R. R. Auction, Amherst (New Hampshire), 13 January 2010 (see http://www.rrauction.com/past_auction_item.cfm?ID=3192528 and http://www.icollector.com/Pyotr-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky_i9203961 )
Publication	Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen, Heft 17 (2010), p. 11 (addressee unidentified)
Notes	For a detailed commentary on this letter, see "Klin, near Moscow, was the home of one of the busiest of men …" (Tchaikovsky Research Bulletin No.1)

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French text (original)		English translation
Klin, 28 Février/12 Mars 1893		Klin, 28 February/12 March 1893
Cher Monsieur !		Dear Sir!
Vous me demandez d'où est tiré le fragment que je Vous ai envoyé ? Malheureusement j'ai complètement oublié quelle est la phrase musicale que je Vous ai communiquée.		You ask me about where the fragment I sent you is taken from. Unfortunately I’ve completely forgotten what musical phrase I communicated to you.
Veuillez me le faire savoir.		Please let me know [1].
Bien à Vous,		Yours sincerely,
P. Tschaïkovsky		P. Tchaikovsky

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Notes:

1. Enclosed with letter 4856a to Francis Arthur Jones on 5/17 February 1893, Tchaikovsky had, in accordance with the latter's request for a small fragment from one of his manuscripts, sent an autograph musical quotation from the finale of The Queen of Spades (but without stating the title of the work). Jones had then written back from England on 27 February 1893 [N.S.] to thank the composer and to ask him to name the work from which the quotation was taken. See the publication of letter 4856a in Советская музыка (1990), No. 6. p. 92–93, and the accompanying information provided by Polina Vaidman and Liudmila Korabel'nikova. At the time it was not clear whether Tchaikovsky replied to Jones's letter of 27 February [N.S.], but now that the above letter has come to light it is clear that he did. What still remains uncertain is whether Jones sent Tchaikovsky a third letter with a copy of the musical phrase, because according to the commentary in Советская музыка (1990), No. 6. p. 92–93, only two letters from Jones have survived in the archives at Klin [back]

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