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The sub-fonds is divided into 3 series. ++Series Ι++ includes Cavafy's correspondence and is further divided into three sub-series with the following contents: Sub-series 1, Personal correspondence. Sub-series 2, Family correspondence. Sub-series 3, General correspondence. The personal and family correspondence are divided into incoming and outgoing. ++Series ΙΙ++ contains various items and comprises two files. The first contains diary-type texts written by the poet and the second contains various personal documents (of legal, financial, personal and family-related content as well as ephemera, printed media and works by third parties). ++Series ΙΙΙ++ comprises one file and contains the collection of photographs, divided into personal, family and photographs of third parties.

The sub-fonds comprises 8 files, containing 42 items acquired through equal purchases in the period 2013-2018. The files contain manuscripts of Cavafy, printed poetry collections of his and various other items (letters by the poet, sketches and manuscripts by others etc).

The sub-fonds is divided into 4 series with the following subject matters: Poetic works, Prose works, Notes by the poet, Works of others on C. P. Cavafy. The first series includes the poems by C. P. Cavafy, both handwritten and printed. The second series includes Cavafy's prose works (literary texts, articles and studies, the dictionary in which he accumulates unusual and rare words of the Greek language). The third series includes the poet's handwritten notes, related to the production of his work, while the fourth series includes the translations of Cavafy's poems, studies on the work of Cavafy, poems of his set to music and sketches depicting the poet's figure.