Item 0146 (738) - Letter by D. P. Petrokokkinos to Cavafy

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GR-OF CA CA-SF02-S01-SS01-F18-SF003-0146 (738)

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Letter by D. P. Petrokokkinos to Cavafy

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  • 6/1/1932 (Creation)

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28 x 21.5 cm

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Petrokokkinos, D. P.

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Onassis Foundation

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Handwritten letter by D. P. Petrokokkinos to Cavafy on one side of a sheet. Embossed address at top right. He thanks Cavafy for the despatch of three poetry collections to Samuel Baud-Bovy. Accompanied by a second sheet with a quote from a study by J. N. Mavrogordatos with reference to Cavafy and his work (London, MacMillan & Co, 1931). (Athens)

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      Mainly Greek

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      Writing in ink. Physical item wear: oxidations.

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      Petrocochino, Dimitrios P.. “Letter by D. P. Petrokokkinos to Cavafy”. Letter, 06.01.1932. GR-OF CA CA-SF02-S01-SS01-F18-SF003-0146 (738), 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-S01-SS01-F18-SF003-0146.

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      F74_Φ11-12

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          J. N. Mavrogordatos refers to issues of metrics in Cavafy's poetry and places Cavafy among modernist authors, such as Thomas Hardy, André Gide, Τ. S. Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, Walter J. Turner, D. H. Lawrence, Herman Hesse, Aldous Huxley.

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