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Handwritten prose text (essay) on both sides of a piece of paper. Abbreviations. Brief assessment of the life and work of the jurist, scholar and poet Athanasios Christopoulos.

Handwritten prose text by Cavafy on 14 sheets and 9 double sheet notepapers. Pages 4-38 are numbered. The upper half of page 30 is typewritten. The text narrates the history of the Cavafy family from the 18th century (1728) and Peter Cavafy to the time and family of the poet, citing all known information on every person, providing more details and placing greater emphasis on the members of his own family as well as on members of other (often related) families linked to it. Cancellations; abbreviations. Interpolated words in Greek. The date indication ("1903") is provided by the author of the text (page 19).

Article regarding the funeral of George Fotiadis, Cavafy's maternal grandfather, in Istanbul. The ceremony is described in detail. In the margin of the printed text, the handwritten note in ink "Buried in the grave of our mother", possibly in the hand of Cavafy's mother, Charikleia.

Handwritten text on four sheets, with notes on all sides. The text describes the history of the Cavafy family. It includes a short family tree with John Cavafy and his children. Cancellations and emendations in pencil by the poet's brother, John.

Handwritten letter by Photius Fotiadis, uncle of Cavafy (his mother's brother), to Charikleia Cavafy in two bifolios of the Ottoman Empire Healthcare Administration. Update on the health of their sister, Sévastie, who is hospitalised in Paris. Description of the situation in Istanbul and reference to his two sons, George and Constantine. Interpolated words in French. (Istanbul)

Handwritten rhymed text in six parts, entitled "I mpogada", by P. Cavafy". It occupies 11 pages of a homemade sixteen-page booklet sewn with thread. On the eleventh page another rhymed text starts, entitled "I Keratsa", which continues on another four pages. At the end of the text, is its creator's name, "Il[ias] Tantalidis". The last two pages of the booklet are blank. It is accompanied by a twelve-page school notebook. They are all occupied by the rhymed text "I mpogada", with the name P. Cavafy underneath the title, on the first page and at the end of the text, on the last one. The two booklets are placed in a handmade folder of paperboard.

Manuscript on two large-size sheets affixed to one another so as to form a double sheet paper. It contains the Cavafy family tree, going back to the generation of their father, Peter John Cavafy. The date of birth and death of the family members is recorded as well as other relevant information. There is also record of the Cavafy family crests and crowns as well as other "Notes", explanatory of the family tree.

Handwritten text on seven sheets and one piece of paper. On the recto of the first sheet, the title "Genealogical Gossip or Various bits of the History of our Father's & Mother's family thrown together" as well as the indication "5 May '83", in pencil. Blank verso. Sheets 2-6 are written on both sides. At the bottom of the verso of the sixth sheet, the poet's signature, the date and the place: "Constantine Cavafy / 15 April 1883 / Yenikeuy (Constantinople) / At Mons. G. Fotiadis villa". "Addenda to Genealogical Gossip" " on the recto of the seventh sheet. On the piece of paper, notes, most likely by John Cavafy, on the family branch in London and in Liverpool. It should be dated to a period postdating the rest of the text, as the latest year recorded is 1891. The text refers to all that the poet heard and learned in Istanbul from his grandfather George Fotiadis and from his aunt Roxandra Plessou, his father's sister, regarding the ancestors of the Cavafy and Fotiadis families.