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72 KO/NSTWrmiNOS HATtZOPOUI, 03 4

sent you by doctor Tipaldos a letter from Kissinef (which I don’t know if you have received)”¹⁶. This means that the letter referred to by Em. Xanthos in the letter in question, was the last one addressed to the unknown receiver.

As it is known that doctor Tipaldos left Bessarabia for Triest at the end of April 1821, we can conclude that the coiTespondence between Em. Xanthos and the unknown receiver was also interrupted at the end of April 1821.

Besuming the stated elements we can infer that:

a)    the place of destination of the letter in question was Peloponnesus ;

b)    the receiver of the letter was younger than the author;

c)    the carrier of the first letter written by Em. Xanthos and addressed to the same receiver, was G. Tipaldos, who followed D. Ipsilantis and P. Anagnostopoulos on their way from Kissinef to Ccrnaujii and Hermannstadt, where he met them on the 17th of May 1821;

d)    the receiver of the letter must have been a distinguished revo-lutionary, who not only was familiar with D. Ipsilantis, but also could influence him in taking important decisions (as, for instancc; the establishment of the secret revolutionary organizations in Bessarabia) and who also knew his most secret orders (as, for instance, the order regarding the monetary contribution of Ioannis Yarvakis);

e)    the correspondence between Em. Xanthos and the unknown reeeiver was interrupted at the end of April 1821, when the former sont with G. Tipaldos a last letter to the unknown receiver, which is mentioned in the letter in question.

Putting together all the above mentioned elements we easily come to the conclusion that the receiver of the letter in ąuestion was the well known Greek revo!utionary P. Anagnostopoulos.

This conclusion is based on the following data :

a)    he lived in Peloponnesus, when the letter was written;

b)    he was younger than the author of the letter ;

c)    he was the only one, who accompanied D. Ipsilantis on his way from Bessarabia to Triest** and he met G. Tipaldos in Hermannstadt, the carrier of the first letter addressed by Em. Xanthos to him, as we have already noticed;

d)    he was a distinguished revolutionary and a member of the Supreme Committee of the secret revolutionary organization “Philiki Hetairia” and therefore he could have known all the secret orders and activitica; beneath these it was his own idea that “one of Alexandros Ipsilantis’ brothers should go to Greece”¹⁷; except all these, after the settlcment of D. Ipsilantis in Kissinef and further, P. Anagnostopoulos “played the rólc of cousul to him”¹⁸, which means that he could have influenced him in

^W Ibidem, p. 1.

¹¹ We must exclude any p rob ab Ul ty that the receiver of the letter In quest!on was the servant of D. Ipsilantis, Sovantzioglou by name, who accompanied his master from Kissinef to Greece (see, SpUiadis, N., op. ctL, p. 204 notę 1).

¹⁷ Filltnon, Io., Historleal ... the Greek Rcoolutlon ..., vol. III, p. 385; idem, Hislo-rleal ... the FtUkt Hetairia ..., pp. 381 — 382.

^w Fllimon, Io._# Hitiorical ... the Gruk Rcoolutlon ..., vol. III, p. 386.