Material brought together as part of Stephanides' efforts to write an autobiography, including: childhood and family photographs and those taken of himself during the First and Second World Wars, correspondence, and notes.
4 notebooks containing biographical details of his childhood in India, Marseille, and his family's arrival in Corfu; also present are notes at the back of the fourth notebook, with details of his activities during the First World War.
Three notebooks with autobiographical information on his childhood in India, France, and in Corfu; also present is another notebook, which details his opinions on various matters, including communism, and Britain's conduct during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
A typescript draft of Stephanides' unpublished First World War memoir, which focuses upon his experiences as part of the Greek Army on the Macedonian Front; this memoir was originally started in the 1920s and finished in 1931; this copy is a revised version.
Four different typescript drafts of one of Stephanides' unpublished Second World War memoirs, which focuses upon the years of 1940 and 1941, during the initial years of the Western Desert campaign; there are variations in pagination and manuscript corrections.
Three different typescript versions of Stephanides' third and final Second World War memoir, unpublished, which details his war experiences following the evacuation of Crete (documented in his published book, Climax in Crete), with his return to Egypt, his participation in the invasion of Sicily ...
Drawings of landscapes and maps (some of which are photocopies) used in Stephanides' various war memoirs; includes maps of: the Western Desert coast; the eastern coast of Greece; Marder Course, 1917; and a panorama of the Macedonian Front from Piton Blanc 2 observational post Dec 1917; also prese...
Material includes a first edition of Stephanides' and George Katsimbalis' Poems by Kostes Palamas, which has an inscription from Katsimbalis and has been annotated with corrections by Stephanides; two copies of Modern Greek Poems by Stephanides and Katsimbalis with annotated corrections by Stepha...
A translated transcript of a lecture given by the son of Kostes Palamas, Leandros, in 1912, on Palamas' poem, The Palm-Tree; an inscription is present from Stephanides.
Two typescript drafts of a collection of Palamas' poetry, one bound and the other unbound, which vary in pagination and other aspects; along with notes concerning corrections.