Item 0033 (1813) - Telegram to A. Singopoulo

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GR-OF CA SING-S01-F02-SF002-0033 (1813)

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Telegram to A. Singopoulo

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  • 25/4/1939 (Creation)

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19.5 x 20 cm

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The Listener (journal)

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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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Onassis Foundation

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Telegram by The Listener to Alekos Singopoulo, asking his permission to publish two poems by Cavafy, translated by Mavrogordatos, in the weekly journal of the BBC. Blank verso. Accompanied by a small-size piece of paper of the BBC referring to the rights of the translator, Ioannis Mavrogordatos, as well as by a telegram delivery receipt to Singopoulo, dated 26/4/1939.

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      English

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      Writing in pencil.

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      The Listener (journal). “Telegram to A. Singopoulo”. Telegram, 25.04.1939. GR-OF CA SING-S01-F02-SF002-0033 (1813), 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-SF002-0033.

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      Αρχείο Σεγκόπουλου_Β33

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