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Letter from Shahzadah Ahmad Mirza, 1922
Shahzadah Ahmad Mirza complains to the addressee for not sending any letters and asks her/him to send a letter through the newly established postal service of Urumiyah, as his/her mother is extremely worried.
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Letter from Hamid al-Sultan
Probably from Hamid al-Sultan; he writes that his only delight is hearing about his two children and family and that he gets worried when he has no letters from them and the addressee; expresses his condolences for the death of Zari Khanum and ‘Alaviyah Khanum's daughter; accepts Muntasir Lashkar's request to send some bottles of wine and arak, provided that he accepts the costs; discusses sending bottles of pussy willow water and rose water; mentions Safiyah's request for money to buy clothes and sending one tuman for the children to buy shoes and summer goods; informs the addressee of...
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Letter, 1914
The writer expresses happiness for the family's well-being and talks about missing Safiyah and Buyuk Khanum, requests ink, and mentions sending the money owed to Nanah Khanum, four photographs of himself, and the souvenir for the addressee
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Request for a stipend, 1919
‘Ali Akbar Khan, the steward, asks the agent of Urumiyah to determine his remuneration for a task regarding the daughter of the late Iqbal al-Mulk and Haj Aqa ‘Ali Hariri, so he can receive it from Haji Mirza Abu al-Qasim, Haj Aqa ‘Ali's representative. Sharif al-Mulk, the agent at Urumiyah, responds that he has ordered Mirza Abu al-Qasim to pay 20 tumans to Aqa ‘Ali Akbar Khan. He has also mentioned a huge wrongdoing against Samsam's wife that he will discuss with him in person.
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Letter from Abu al-Qasim Isfahani to ‘Ali Hariri, 1922
Regarding sending a check of six tumans via Kawsar Khanum
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On the nomads' attacks, 1910
From the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to its office in Urumiyah regarding the assault by nomads on the village of Qaraguz, which is owned by the inheritors of Taqi Bayg
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Murder in response to assault, 1910
Letter from Ahmad Mujallal al-Mulk, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ representative in Urumiyah about Benjamin, a Christian employee of the French missionaries who killed Petrus, a Christian Ottoman national, after he assaulted Benjamin’s daughter, Benjamin’s consequent arrest and imprisonment by the Ottoman Shahbandar, and Shahbandar’s dismissing the request for holding a trial. After Benjamin's temporary release following his illness and his complaint against his prolonged imprisonment in the absence of any trials, the writer repeated his request for a trial, only to be refused again by...
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Regarding displacement of Targavir village people, 1907
A telegram from Imamquli in Urumiyah to Atabak A‘zam in Tehran regarding the pillage of Mavanah and Targavir villages by the Ottoman nomads, and the killing of eighteen men and sixty-six women and children. Around three thousand people, mostly Christians, from the neighboring villages, have fled to Urumiyah and are in need of food and clothing; the writer has been collecting aid from the elite and merchants of Urumiyah and is asking for the government's assistance, suggesting that any aid should be delivered via the Christian clergy who will distribute it among their people.
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Regarding Jayran Khanum's salary, 1910
Documents include a letter of request from Jayran Khanum, daughter of Mashhadi Abu al-Fath, and confirmation of her salary; Jayran Khanum's power of attorney to Mustafa Khan to represent and receive her salary; and her identity verification and salary form
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Regarding complaints by the Christians of Azarbayjan, 1910
Correspondence among the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, their office in Urumiyah, a representative of the Christian population in Azarbayjan, and the Ottoman Embassy, regarding the complaints by the Christians against the nomadic Kurds who plunder their villages and abduct Christian girls, as well as the complaint by the French and American embassies in support of the Christians.
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