Employment contract between the Egyptian Government and Cavafy. The poet is hired as a temporary employee with the ministry of Public Works for a five-year period, as of 1 July 1912, with an annual salary of 264 Egyptian pounds. The amount has been corrected in red ink. Three printed copies of the contract in double sheet notepapers, one of which is not filled-in. The last page of each copy is blank. They are accompanied by three typewritten copies of an annex to the contract, on the recto of sheets. The verso is blank. One of the copies has been filled in by Cavafy; the second one is partially filled in by another person and the third one is blank. The contract is printed in English, French and Arabic; the annex is in English only.

Typewritten copy of a letter by Alekos Singopoulo to Leonard Woolf on one side of a sheet. Blank verso. He informs him that he is sending the signed contract and hopes that the printing of the publication of Cavafy's poems will begin soon. Accompanied by the copy of a telegram, in which Singopoulo informs him that he accepts the terms and that he is sending the contract. Also accompanied by the printed four-page contract between The Hogarth Press and Singopoulo, signed by himself and Woolf.

Handwritten copy of an agreement between Cavafy and The Hogarth Press publishing house, on the recto of five sheets. It is a contract for the publication of Cavafy's poems in English. Page numbers are indicated (2-5). Attached to the document is a note on the blank side of a small-size advertisement card, with writing indicating the printed and handwritten parts of the (original) text.