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Handwritten list for the distribution of the collection of poems published after the 1910 Issue, consisting of four cut sheets of notepaper initially folded in bifolios with notes on all sides and of a broadsheet written on one side. The names of individuals are recorded in chronological order (1912-1918), and next to them the number of issues to be sent to each of them is mentioned; there are also notes by Cavafy regarding the person who mediates for the acquisition of the issue or who will be the final recipient. At the top of the list it is stated that the distribution started in April 1912. The total of issues distributed is recorded at the end of each column which is subsequently carried forward to the top of the next one.

Four copies of a printed invitation to a lecture by Alekos Singopoulo on the subject of his contemporary Greek poets, among whom Cavafy.

Manuscript by Alekos Singopoulo on the recto of 43 sheets and papers of various sizes. Blank verso. Page numbering 1 to 44, corrected on some of the pages. Pages 25-28 are missing, as well as the end of the text. The papers include: clipping from the newspaper Nea Zoi (1912) with poems by Malakasis and Ugo Foscolo, pp. 153-154; clipping from an issue of the O Noumas (1920) with fragment of a poem; the poem "Ithaca", printed on two sheets in 1917; printed broadsheet with Cavafy's poem "Dangerous" (1919). Singopoulo's text is preceded by an unnumbered sheet with the poem "Fthinoporini Fysi". This is the text of a lecture delivered by Singopoulo on 10/6/1920 at the hall of the Greek Secondary School Alumni Association (of the Averoff Secondary School and the Salvageios School of Commerce), on the work by seven Modern Greek poets.