Item 0002 (363) - Notes by E. M. Forster, R. Singopoulo and Cavafy

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GR-OF CA SING-S01-F02-SF002-0002 (363)

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Notes by E. M. Forster, R. Singopoulo and Cavafy

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  • 1929 (Creation)

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32 x 25 cm

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Name of creator

Forster, E. M.

Biographical history

Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist, a short story writer and an essayist. He was born in London (England), studied at Cambridge and travelled to around the world. His most famous works include A Room with a View, Howards End, A Passage to India etc. He was a Literature Nobel Prize Nominee, sixteen times. Forster became acquainted with Cavafy in Alexandria (Egypt) during World War I and had a long-term correspondence with him. He introduced Cavafy’s work to the English public and persistently tried to convince the Alexandrian poet to publish his entire work in English.

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Cavafy, C. P.

Biographical history

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Singopoulo (Agallianou), Rica

Biographical history

Rica (Rodopi) Agallianou studied Law and worked at a law firm in Alexandria (Egypt). She directed (together with A. G. Symeonidis) the journalAlexandrini Techni; she was also a columnist for the newspaper Tachydromos and a member of the Press Office of the Greek Consulate in Alexandria. She wrote poems and essays. She was the first to publish Cavafy’s 154 “canon” poems in Alexandria in 1935. Her first marriage was to Alekos Singopoulo and she was very close to Cavafy during the last decade of his life. She died in Athens (Greece) in 1956.

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Onassis Foundation

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Handwritten notes on two double sheet notepapers in the form of questions to E. M. Forster; they have been written in French by Rica Singopoulo and they obviously come from his interview with the Tachydromos of Alexandria. Extensive handwritten notes by Forster in English and handwritten notes by Cavafy in pencil. Pages 2-4 are numbered. Cancellations. List of Forster's works by Forster compiled by himself on paper. Forster's address in England on another paper, handwritten by Cavafy. The same note, again by Cavafy, on a small piece of paperboard. Envelope with the address of R. Singopoulo, bearing a rubber mail stamp with the date 24/12/1929.

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      French, English

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      Writing in ink and pencil. Physical item wear: oxidations.

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      Singopoulo, Rica. “Notes by E. M. Forster, R. Singopoulo and Cavafy”. Notes (handwritten), 1929. GR-OF CA SING-S01-F02-SF002-0002 (363), 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-SF002-0002.

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      F48_Φ13-18

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          Forster's notes pertain to the presentation of his literary generation, and particularly of his closer circle.

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