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- 1918-1966 (Creation)
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5 files (248 items)
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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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Alekos (Alexandros) Singopoulo, son of Dimitrios and Maria, was born at Chalkida (Greece) on February 2 1898, older of four brothers. He and Cavafy first met in Alexandria in 1917. He was a graduate of the Salvageios School of Commerce and worked for Greek companies in Egypt as well as a broker. He married Rica Agallianou (Singopoulo) in 1926 and lived in the same building with Cavafy, eventually becoming his general heir. He died in Athens (Greece) in 1966.
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The series of the Personal Papers of Alekos and Rica Singopoulo comprises five files. File 01 contains documents produced by Alekos and Rica Singopoulo which shed light on the personality and poetic work of Cavafy. File 02 (comprising three sub-files) contains the correspondence of the Singopoulos with the poet and with third parties, as well as Alekos Sigopoulo's correspondence with a British publishing house regarding the first collective edition of Cavafy's poems in English. File 03 comprises items relating to other activities of the Singopoulos as well as personal documents. File 04 contains the collection of photographs in possession of Alekos and Rica Singopoulo. File 05 comprises the sketches depicting Cavafy in possession of Alekos Singopoulo.
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The documents are written primarily in Greek and English and secondarily in French.
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Singopoulo, Alekos D. & Rica. “PERSONAL PAPERS”. Series, 1918-1966. GR-OF CA SING-S01, 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://cavafy.onassis.org/object/y3d6-84kz-pbe6.