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  • [Alexandria] 7 May 1884


        My dear Constantine, I have your nice
        letter 24 ultimo enclosing extract from the
        Neologos, which I have read with much
        interest and for which I thank you. You     have my full sympathy and I can well
        appreciate all you write. ― You ask how
        Easter passed with me: as unremarkably
        as any other Sunday, were it not for the
        abominable pistol-firing in the streets.
        I have sent you our father’s passport under     registered cover. ― You are perfectly right
        in calling the Egyptian Gazette trite:
        for one word of sense, Philip gives his
        readers ten of “Bamboozledom”.
        News there is none. Nothing has yet     been said about the Indemnities and










  •      the policy of England with regard to
        Egypt is unchanged. What will ultimately
        be decided upon and done is a thick     mystery, tho’ no one for a moment
        would credit the thought that the English
        intend leaving the country. In the mean-
        while the papers are kicking up a great
        row against the Liberal Government
        and are vehement in their protestations     about Gordon’s position.
        My best affection to all.
              Believe me, dear Constantine,
                   Yours devotedly
                   Johannisberg
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Letter by John Cavafy to C. P. Cavafy
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7/5/1884
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Handwritten letter by John Cavafy to C. P. Cavafy on both sides of a small letterhead of R. J. Moss & Co., Alexandria. Personal news. Comments on the political situation. (Alexandria)

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The transcription and editing of the letters of John Constantine Cavafy addressed to C. P. Cavafy was first carried out by Katerina Ghika; said transcriptions were subsequently uploaded to the official website of the Cavafy Archive.

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PERSONAL PAPERS
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