Autograph manuscript of the poem "In 200 B.C." on one side of a sheet. Cancellations and emendations. At the bottom, affixed piece of paper with printed details: date, corrected by hand to read "10 September 1931", and the brand name "Kasimatis & Ionas Printing shops – Alexandria". Sheet number marked at top right: "68".
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Manuscript of the poem "In 200 B.C.".
Cavafy, C. P.Four handwritten prose texts in English, on both sides of two sheets, the first of which has been cut in half. Numbering on two of the pages ("1', "2"), which is neither sequential not written by the poet. Footnotes and bibliographical references. Short quote from a poem in Greek. Fragment of unidentified text in the upper part of the first page.
Cavafy, C. P.Handwritten drafts of the poem "Ptolemy the Benefactor (or Malefactor)" on all pages of a double sheet notepaper; on three loose sheets; on both sides of a printed broadsheet with fragment of the poem "Ides of March" bearing an emendation in the eighth verse; on both sides of a small piece of paper; on the recto of a note to Cavafy in English dated "2.2.22". Handmade folder with the handwritten title and the date "Febr. '22" on the verso of a cut printed medium entitled "Seventeenth Annual Report, The Egyptian Salt & Soda Company Limited".
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