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- 8/12/1925 (Creation)
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32 x 24.5 cm
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Handwritten draft letter by Cavafy to Harold Edward Monro on all four pages of a bifolio. Cancellations and emendations. He thanks him for the despatch of a journal issue and comments on its contents (mainly works by British poets). He sends his poem "One of Their Gods". On the last page, the address of The Poetry Bookshop. (Alexandria)
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English
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Writing in ink and pencil. Physical item wear: oxidations.
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"One of Their Gods" >Α160
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Cavafy, C. P.. “Draft letter by Cavafy to H. Monro”. Letter (draft), 08.12.1925. GR-OF CA CA-SF02-S01-SS01-F17-SF003-0026 (765), Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/CA-SF02-S01-SS01-F17-SF003-0026.
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Παλαιά ένδειξη ταξινόμησης
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- Works by other authors » "The romantic fool" [Monro, Harold Edward]
- Works by other authors » "Great distance" [Sassoon, Siegfried]
- Works by other authors » "Alone" [Sassoon, Siegfried]
- Works by other authors » Citizens at a Citizen's Funeral [Brown, Alec]
- Journals » Chapbook, The
- Works by other authors » "To an old lady dead" [Sassoon, Siegfried]
- Newspapers » London Mercury, The
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "One of Their Gods"
- Letter (draft)
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- Cavafy, C. P. (Authority)
- Sassoon, Siegfried (Subject)
- Milton, John (Subject)
- Aldington, Richard (Subject)
- Ginner, Charles (Subject)
- Woolf, Leonard S. (Subject)
- Monro, Harold (Subject)