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Handmade folder with the annotations "Dictionary 3" and "Dia-Euth". Pieces of paper and print clippings with notes and quotes for the Dictionary. It includes the entries "Diaisthisis-Euthymologos". Quotes from various bibliographical sources below each entry. The title and author of each work are cited and often the place of publication and the publishing house.

Handwritten list of mostly foreign publications in the first three pages of a double sheet notepaper; it is probably written by G. A. Papoutsakis and A. Singopoulo. The last page is blank. Listed are journals, historical and literary publications, dictionaries; Greek, French, English and Italian editions. The dates mentioned cover the period 1824-1900.

Handwritten list of books and journals, compiled in three double sheet notepapers and one sheet. The year of publication of some books is recorded; a code is recorded to the left of the author's name. Non-Greek publications, mostly literary and historical; among them, a luxury Japanese edition of Cavafy's poems in French. The dates mentioned cover the period 1758-1928.

Two copies of the newspaper Tilegrafos of Alexandria. An article by Cavafy, on the first and second pages, regarding the poetry of Georgios Stratigis. It is signed "C.F.C.".

Issue No 2588 of the newspaper Tilegrafos of Alexandria. Cavafy's article "The Byzantine Poets", signed "C.F.C.", in the first page.

Handwritten notes regarding the translation of the poems "The Funeral of Sarpedon" and "That Is He", on both sides of a ruled leaf. The part of the text referring to the poem "The Funeral of Sarpedon" has been crossed out in pencil.

Handwritten notes by Cavafy, some with date indications (1932 and 1933), on pieces of paper of various sizes, letterheads of the Cosmopolite Hotel in Athens, the hospital of the Greek Community of Alexandria and on advertisement brochures from Alexandria. Some of the notes are addressed to Alekos and Rica Singopoulo; other notes refer to poems or titles of poems of his. Two of the notes pertain to his health. A total of 23 pieces of paper inside a handmade folder of hard paper, entitled "From the last manuscripts of C.P.C.", in a handwriting other than the poet's (most probably Rica Singopoulo's). Interpolated words and phrases in English. They are notes through which Cavafy communicated when he was longer able to speak, due to the tracheostomy he underwent in 1932 in Athens.

Handwritten notes in ink on the first and third pages of a ruled double sheet notepaer. Note in pencil at the bottom of the third page. The remaining pages are blank. References to Greek authors (Lucian, Pausanias, etc.).

Handwritten notes, verses and variations (probably drafts of the poem "In 200 B.C.") in four sheets, three pieces of paper of various sizes, on an envelope of the journal Panaigyptia and on an envelope of the National Bank of Egypt. Quotes and bibliographical references (among them, references to 1879 and 1915 publications).

Press clipping from the newspaper Tilegrafos of 2/14 January 1893, with an article by Cavafy on the poetry of Georgios Stratigis. The poet analyses the work of Stratigis and quotes from his poems. The article is signed "C.F.C.".