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Booklet comprising 41 numbered pages of the Alexandria Sporting Club, "Number 3". It contains a list of members with their addresses (Paul Cavafy among them), the club rules as well as various useful information.

Handwritten diary from Cavafy's trip to Greece during the period 13 June-5 August 1901. It is written in English, on 31 sheets of various sizes, among which letterheads of the Khedivial Mail Steamship Company, the Grand Hotel d'Angleterre in Athens, the Grand Hotels of Faliron and Patras as well as the Austrian Lloyd (Oesterreichischer Lloyd). It also includes a draft plan of the central part of the city of Patras (part of the entry of on 31 July), with the street names in Greek. The diary contains daily entries by Cavafy, in which he describes his trip by boat to and from Alexandria as well as his activities, acquaintances, social encounters and impressions from Athens and the other places he visited.

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.

Manuscript of a poem and attached handwritten note. The poem "He Who Fails" on the recto of a ruled sheet. Cancellations and emendations. On the verso, verses, two poem titles ("Prayer" and "Very Rarely") as well as other handwritten notes regarding publication information: "Published in the aig. imerologion of G. V. Tsokopoulos, 1895" and "(See publication of "Poems" 1910)". All notes on the verso have been crossed out, except for the title "Very Rarely". The handwritten note "Not for publication; but may remain here" on a separate piece of paper.

The 7th issue of the journal Eikostos Aion published in Alexandria. Cavafy's poem "Elegy of the Flowers" is published on the last page [8]. Signed "Const. F. Cavafy". Photograph of Georgios Averoff on the cover.

Loose issue (47-48) of the Nea Zoi of Alexandria, comprising pages 893-918. The poem "The Funeral of Sarpedon" in the first two pages.

Short handwritten letter by Georgios Tsokopoulos to Cavafy, written on a postcard. The sender asks to be sent poems by Cavafy, which he intends to include in a text he is preparing, regarding literary activity in Egypt. (Athens)

Issue of the newspaper Tachydromos of Alexandria.

Handwritten titles of poems on the first three pages of a double sheet notepaper. Bibliographical references to the printed media (of the period 1886-1912) in which the poems referred to were published. The last page is blank.

Handwritten prose text by Cavafy on a double sheet notepaper, on both sides of two sheets and on the recto of a third sheet. Three date indications, all from 1903 (July, August, November). Extensive use of abbreviations throughout the text. Very few titles of poems are mentioned ("Walls", "The Windows", etc.). Few cancellations, emendations and notes in pencil.

Handwritten text by Evgenia Zografou, entitled "O pioitis C. Cavafy" and written on the recto of five small-size pieces of paper. The verso of the first four sheets is blank. Arithmetic operations on the verso of the fifth piece of paper. Pages 2 to 5 numbered at top right. Zografou, director of the review Elliniki Epitheorisis, describes her acquaintance with Cavafy and details her views on his work.