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- [1906] (Creation)
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20 x 12.6 cm
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Handwritten draft letter by Cavafy to Grigorios Xenopoulos on both sides of a small-size sheet. It is a reply to a letter he had received on 26 January. He refers to the matter of subscribers and sales, while he also sends him an amount of money against the purchase of copies, expressing his concern regarding the marketability of Greek books. Cancellations and emendations. The pages are numbered (1-2).
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Greek
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Piece of plain paper. Black ink and pencil. Watermark: [Original Stair] (not entirely legible).
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Cavafy, C. P.. “Draft letter by C. P. Cavafy to Grigorios Xenopoulos”. Letter (draft), [1906]. GR-OF CA CA-SF02-S01-SS01-F17-SF003-0011 (502), 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-SF003-0011.
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Παλαιά ένδειξη ταξινόμησης
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- Cavafy, C. P. (Authority)
- Xenopoulos, Grigorios (Subject)
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Archivist's note
The dating of the draft letter is deduced from the content in combination with the incoming letter by Xenopoulos (of 26 January 1906), which is referred to and forms part of the Archive (see GR-OF CA CA-SF02-S01-SS01-F18-SF003-0025).