Summary

Postcard from Letho Sigalas to his fiancé Lili Vrahamis. It was written on 29th August, 1921, while Letho was travelling from Greece to Melbourne via Cairo.

Letho was the son of James Sigalas, a Greek migrant who settled in Australia in 1901 and opened the Anglo-American café in 1906, and the Centenary café, in the mid 1930s, both in Bourke Street Melbourne. Letho worked in his father's café's and in 1920 was engaged to his cousin Lili Vrahamis.

Lili (Eleni) Sigalas (nee Vrahamis), born in 1904, was the daughter of Callirrhoe Dressler and Stavros Vrahamis, both from the Greek Island of Sikinos, who also lived for some time in Istanbul. In 1920 Lili was engaged to a cousin Letho (Eleutherios) Sigalas, and in 1922 migrated to Melbourne on the 'Largs Bay' with her father-in-law to be, James (Iakovos) Sigalas, and her elder married sister Alex. Letho and Lili were married at the Greek Orthodox Church on Victoria Parade, on 18 July 1923, just eight days before Lili's 19th birthday. They had two daughters - Dan'e in 1924 and Magarita Babette in 1931.

Physical Description

Postcard with sepia image of a group of men seated on a rug in a room. Each man wears a robe and headdress. There is a small window at the back of the room through which palm trees can be seen.

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