Item 0012 (762) - Letter by a journal to Cavafy

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GR-OF CA CA-SF02-S02-F25-SF003-0012 (762)

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Letter by a journal to Cavafy

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  • 19/11/1923 (Creation)

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19.5 x 12 cm

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The Nation and Athenaeum was a British weekly periodical. It was created with the merging of the literary magazine Athenaeum (which had been founded in London in 1828) with its competitor The Nation and circulated for a decade, from 1921 to 1931. Leonard S. Woolf was responsible for the newspaper’s literary content, from 1923 to 1930. Among the magazine’s collaborators were Robert Graves, E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot et al.

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Printed note of The Nation and The Athenaeum with payment note for £3,3 to Cavafy for publishing in the journal in October. The date, name and amount are handwritten. Accompanied by envelope with the poet's address. (London)

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      English

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      Writing in ink.

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      The Nation and The Athenaeum (journal). “Letter by a journal to Cavafy”. Letter, 19.11.1923. GR-OF CA CA-SF02-S02-F25-SF003-0012 (762), Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/CA-SF02-S02-F25-SF003-0012.

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      F74_Φ23

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