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Handwritten letter by Mike Ralli to Cavafy in two sheets, with notes on all sides. The author expresses his interest in the time of Cavafy's return to Alexandria as well as in the in development of his writing. Extensive commentary on the termination of the collaboration of Konstantinos Synadinos with the Banque Générale as well as on other people related to the financial and social life of Alexandria. Views on matters of financial management and administration. Information on people from their friendly and broader social environment. Reference to the matter of his eyesight and impressions from the book How to use our eyes and how to preserve them by the aid of spectacles by J. Browning, with whom he started exchanging correspondence. The second sheet is numbered. (Alexandria)

Handwritten text on all sides of two sheets and on the recto of a third sheet, the verso of which is blank. Use of English and French words. All three sheets are torn in half. Diary-type text, describing the illness and the last days of the poet's friend Mike Th. Ralli. Date indications (15, 27, 28 September 1889). Accompanied by folder with brief description of the content (probably written by G. A. Papoutsakis).