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Shaykh Muhammad Ibrahim's petition
Shaykh Muhammad Ibrahim, son of the late Shaykh Javad, talks about his inability to provide for his family and, reporting that his shoes have been stolen, requests financial assistance.
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Petitions from wives of Na’ib Husayn Kashani
Petitions from wives of Na’ib Husayn Kashani: 1- a petition from Na’ib Husayn Kashani's wife to Shukuh al-Mulk in which she talks about the hardships she and the other wives of Na’ib Husayn and their children facing. She mentions that when Mushir al-Dawlah was Prime Minister, it was decided that a stipend (6 qirans) would go to two of Na’ib Husayn's incarcerated comrades in addition to a payment to his wives. After Mushir al-Dawlah's resignation, these women went to Sipahdar Aʻzam, but remained helpless and therefore demand a stipend to save them from hunger. Na’ib Husayn's wives clarify...
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Petition to evacuate the barn
Petition written by the wife of Muhammad Hasan (son of the late Haji ‘Ali Riza Tajir [the merchant]) to the Friday prayer leader of Fars, requesting to write a note to Mi‘mar-bashi [the architect] asking him to evacuate her barn. Upon her husband’s request, she had rented the barn to Mi‘mar-bashi for fifty tumans, which her husband, Muhammad Hasan, had received. As she has now sold the barn to Muhammad Baqir, she expects Mi‘mar-bashi to vacate the property in exchange for fifty tumans.
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Petition to receive rights after divorce, 1905
Petition of Bala Khanum, daughter of Mirza Mahdi, via Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, to the Friday prayer leader of Fars, requesting to call Mirza Riza Quli Khan Niyrizi to the court, due to her sudden divorce despite the 99-year temporary marriage contract a few days earlier, with a monthly payment of eight tumans.
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ʻAziz al-Saltanah's petition to Nayib al-Saltanah
Petition from ʻAziz al-Saltanah, Nasir al-Din Shah's daughter, to Nayib al-Saltanah in which she mentions her having been born shortly after her father was killed, how she had lived all her life with her mother [Mahbub al-Saltanah] and that she had not inherited anything from her father. After the Constitutional Revolution, the Majlis had cut her pension to 1000 tumans. However, Mirza Fath Allah Khan, the provincial treasurer of Gilan, returned her payslip claiming that the money has been paid to Sardar Afkham. ʻAziz al-Saltanah writes about the hardship she has gone through and how she has...
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Ishaq Kalimi to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma
The writer asks the addressee to investigate the murder of his father and his appointee, and talks about the unfairness of this incident especially because he could not find their bodies.
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Transfer of ʻAbbas's stipend to his wife, 1905 or 1906
Documents regarding the payment of the deceased Aqa ʻAbbas' stipend to his wife, Firuzah [Piruzah] Khanum.
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Letter, 1903
The letter is about Qaysar Khan, an Afghan with British citizenship, who the writer claims has financial conflicts with some locals, such as Muhammad Husayn. ʻAli Karbalayi ʻAbbas has agreed to give his daughter to Qaysar Khan in marriage. He gave eighty tumans and some clothes to ʻAli Karbalayi ʻAbbas and his daughter, and has lived with [Ustad ʻAli's] daughter in his house for a month. The writer pleads with the receipient of the letter, claiming that action must be taken to punish Ustad ʻAli, who had gone to his house [in order to make the marriage legal], and he had told him that the...
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About Ahu Khanum’s despair
Letter to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma mentioning that Ahu Khanum, wife of the late Vakil al-Dawlah, has not received any payments despite ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma’s recommendation, which has made her very anxious
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Daughters of Saʻid al-Mulk to Nasir al-Din Shah and Anis al-Dawlah, [late 19th century]
The item consists of two letters enclosed in the same envelope and written by Khanum Shahzadah (Khvurshid Taj) and Amirzadah Khanum (Qamar Taj), daughters of Saʻid al-Mulk, to Anis al-Dawlah and Nasir al-Din Shah. Through the mediation of Anis al-Dawlah, favorite wife of Nasir al-Din Shah, they petition Nasir al-Din Shah to bestow their father's title on Mirza Salih Khan Muʻtamad Divan.
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