Letter from I. Gennadios to E. Venizelos, concerning the accident of the Averof.

Original text (diplomatic transcription)

OCR: needs review · claude-api-yahoo/claude-opus-5-5 · Agreement of two readings 0.75

Stamps and notes

• archival 1173 top left
• archival 36 top right
• archival -Γ- top right, in red
• archival 114 top centre, large red pencil numeral with a red diagonal stroke
• archival 128 top centre, blue pencil numeral
• stamp faint circular stamp top left
• stamp ΜΠΗ / Benaki collection stamp bottom right

Uncertain readings

• Ἰουλ. month abbreviation in the date line is hard to read
• τῆς Κυβερνήσεως second line of the salutation is a probable reading
• Χθὲς συνημμένως ἀπέστειλα ὑμῖν … Μετὰ first line of the body is a tentative reading, with an illegible stretch in the middle
• τὸ ἐπίσημον end of line 2 is uncertain
• ἀφ' ἐμπιστευτικῶς τηλεγραφηθέντα start of line 3 is tentative
• ἀτυχήματος could also be δυστυχήματος
• τοῦ κ. Μιχ- word broken at the line end is uncertain
• ἐτηλεγραφήθησαν tentative reading
• … several stretches on lines 4–9 of the first paragraph cannot be read in this very cursive hand
• ἐκθέσει tentative reading
• μόλις παρέλαβον tentative reading
• Κυβερνήσεως tentative reading in the second paragraph
• … illegible stretches in the second paragraph
• ἀνωτέρων interlinear insertion above ἀξιωματικῶν, tentative reading
• ἀξιωματικῶν probable reading
• … the last line is mostly illegible and ends with a hyphenated word

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