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Letters from Subh-i Azal to his sister
Letters' addressees are named generically with various words meaning sister.
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Letter from Lillian Kappes, 1920
Letter from Lillian Kappes, likely to Mrs. Platt, which mentions her trip to the mountains with lengthy descriptions of the mountains and natural scenery outside of Tehran, how the money sent to the Tarbiat School is being used, the importance of having a school building of their own, and discussions of her Baha’i friends and colleagues
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Letters from Subh-i Azal to ‘Aliyah
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Miscellaneous correspondence related to Subh-i Azal
Miscellaneous correspondence related to Subh-i Azal, including a letter possibly sent by his son Rizvan Allah, addressed to Subh-i Azal's paternal aunt, Fatimah Zahra. Other letters are addressed to Bajiyah [?], Ma‘sumah, Nuzhat, Sahibah [?], and Qamar al-Zaman. The first letter is dated 3 June 1898.
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‘Atiyah Ruhi
At the mausoleum of Subh-i Azal
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Compilation of letters and prayers
Several pieces of correspondence, some in Arabic, some in Persian, one addressed to "6" and one to "53." Three have dates: the first letter is addressed to "Mu‘azzamah ‘Izz" [probably his sister ‘Izziyah Khanum], dated 20 May 1883 [13 Rajab 1300], not in Subh-i Azal's handwriting; possibly a different person has copied all these letters, since the entire set has one kind of handwriting and one color of ink (except for the seventh letter) and is organized as a booklet. The second piece seems to be a prayer. The third is addressed to "53." The fourth is possibly a prayer, but starts by saying...
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Letters from Subh-i Azal to "Mu‘azzamah ‘Izz"
Letters from Subh-i Azal addressed to "Mu‘azzamah ‘Azz". From the content of these letters and some of the letters addressed to Safvat al-Hajiyah, it seems likely that these letters are to his siter ‘Izziyah Khanum. One letters is dated October 16, 1886, one July 15, 1894, and another is dated May 23, 1901.
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Letters from Subh-i Azal to Maymanat
Letters from Subh-i Azal to his granddaughter, Maymanat. Some of the letter are addressed to Maymanat and ‘Aliyah (Maymanat's sister).
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Two pieces in the handwriting of Subh-i Azal and Qurrat al-‘Ayn
Two pieces in the handwriting of Subh-i Azal and Qurrat al-‘Ayn. Each piece has several pages folded as a booklet; inside a single sheet folded to contain them, Qamar Taj Dawlatabadi has written: "The Haykal piece in the auspicious hand-writing of Hazrat Samarah Azal and one in the hand-writing of Hazrat Tahirah."
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Writings of the Bab
Some of the Bab's handwritten notes. The first one has a note on the back (dated 9 July 1951) saying that this is a gift from Fakhriyah Khanum, niece of Mirza Yahya Samarah [Subh-i Azal] to the writer of the note. The last one is copy of Bab's letter to Validah Khanum.
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