CB
Main text
A1 - Working autograph
CJ - Jędrzejewicz Copy
CK - Kolberg Copy
CB - Balakirev Copy
EL - First edition
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  b. 48

in A1

 in CJ, CK (→CB) & EL

In A1  is the only performance indication in this and the next bars until  in b. 57 (except for a few R.H. slurs in b. 52-54). It cannot be ruled out that it could have been influenced by the layout – b. 49-56 fill one line of A1 and both the previous and the next lines abound in such indications. The missing top part of the second  mark makes the interpretation of this marking unobvious; it could also be . A very characteristic horizontal line, common for both letters (cf., e.g. four  on the 1st page of in the Scherzo in B Minor, Op. 31) is an argument in favour of .
In the main text we give the mark of the later version. 

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

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Original in: Warszawskie Towarzystwo Muzyczne, Warszawa