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).
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GR-OF CA CA-SF02-S02-F25-SF002-0003 (1091)
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1903
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Handwritten prose text by Cavafy, written on the recto of three sheets numbered at top right. Blank versos. Comments on four verses of the English translation of the poem "Absence". The number of three of the verses is corrected in pencil. Use of English words. Footnotes on the last two pages.
Cavafy, C. P.