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- 19/3/1949 (Creation)
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28 x 21.5 cm
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Bearing Jewish ancestry, Rae Dalven was born in Preveza (Epirus, Greece) in 1904 and moved with her family to the United States in 1909. She taught Modern Greek literature at the New York University. She translated the work of Greek poets, including that of Cavafy, into English. Her research also included the study of the history of Jews in Greece. She died in New York in 1992.
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Handwritten letter by Rae Dalven to Alekos Singopoulo on the recto of two sheets. Blank versos. The second page is numbered. Dalven asks Singopoulo's permission to publish poems by Cavafy in an anthology of modern Greek poetry she is preparing in English. The financial terms are clarified and the titles of twelve poems are mentioned. (New York)
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English
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Writing in ink. Watermark: Air Mail 693.
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"Waiting for the Barbarians" >Α84
"Walls" >Α50
"The City" >Α107
"Trojans" >Α87
"The Satrapy" >Α108
"Ithaca" >Α122
"Song of Ionia" >Α46
"The God Abandons Antony" >Α116
"Come Back" >Α131
"Very Rarely" >Α132
"Manuel Comnenus" >Α142
"For Ammon, Who Died at 29 Years of Age, in 610" >Α160
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Dalven, Rae. “Letter by R. Dalven to A. Singopoulo”. Letter, 19.03.1949. GR-OF CA SING-S01-F02-SF002-0047 (1827), Onassis Foundation Alekos & Rica Singopoulo Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/SING-S01-F02-SF002-0047.
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Παλαιά ένδειξη ταξινόμησης
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- Letter
- Works by C. P. Cavafy in translation » "Waiting the Barbarians"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy in translation » "The City"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy in translation » "Walls"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy in translation » "The Trojans"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy in translation » "Satrapy"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy in translation » "Ithaca"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy in translation » "Return"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy in translation » "Very seldom"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy in translation » "Manuel Komninos"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy in translation » "For Ammones who died at the age of 29 in the year 610"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "For Ammon, Who Died at 29 Years of Age, in 610"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "The God Abandons Antony"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Come Back"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "The City"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "The Satrapy"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Ithaca"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Song of Ionia"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Manuel Comnenus"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Waiting for the Barbarians"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Very Rarely"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Trojans"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Walls"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy in translation » "Ionian song"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy in translation » "God Forsakes Antony"
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- Dalven, Rae (Authority)
- Gaer Associates (editions) (Subject)
- Hellenic Literary Society (Subject)
- Dalven, Rae (Subject)
- Cavafy, C. P. (Subject)
- Singopoulo, Alekos D. (Subject)