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- 10/4/1937 (Creation)
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19.5 x 20 cm
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The Listener was a weekly journal published by the BBC from 1929 to 1991. It initially published transcripts of radio, and later television, broadcasts as well as previews of broadcasts on literature and music, and presentations of new books. Among the periodical’s collaborators were E. M. Forster, George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath et al.
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Telegram by The Listener to Alekos Singopoulo, requesting his permission to publish four poems by Cavafy, translated by Mavrogordatos, in the weekly magazine of the BBC. Handwritten notes on the verso, with Singopoulo's new address in Alexandria and the titles of the four poems (quite probably handwritten by Rica Singopoulo).
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English
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Writing in pencil. Oxidations and wears.
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"An Old Man" >Α54
"In Evening" >Α152
"Candles" >A61
"Far Off" >Α152
"The Mirror In the Entrance" >Α346
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The Listener (journal). “Telegram to A. Singopoulo”. Telegram, 10.04.1937. GR-OF CA SING-S01-F02-SF002-0026 (1807), Onassis Foundation Alekos & Rica Singopoulo Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/SING-S01-F02-SF002-0026.
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Παλαιά ένδειξη ταξινόμησης
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- Marconi Radio Telegraph Company of Egypt (Subject)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Subject)
- Mavrogordato, John N. (Subject)
- Singopoulo, Alekos D. (Subject)