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Correspondence regarding the inheritance of Muhammad Mirza, 1901-1904
1- Muhammad Mirza, son of Mirza Aqa Baba from Yerevan, transfers all his belongings to Ahmad Aqa from Kirmanshah for ten years, with the provision that if Muhammad Mirza dies during this time, as the executor of his will, Haji Ahmad Aqa pays fifty tumans to Ma‘shumah Khanum and ten tumans to Gulabatun (Muhammad Mirza's wives); 2- Regarding Muhammad Mirza's death during the Hajj and a description of his belongings, which are partly kept with his wife and in his shop, as well as some cash that he gave to Haji Ja‘far during his trip; 3- A letter from the Government of Kurdistan to the Ministry...
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Correspondence regarding the murder of Hakim Haq Nazar, 1899
Including 1- a petition by Rahil to Mushir al-Dawlah, regarding the murder of her husband, Haq Nazar, a Jewish doctor in Kurdistan. She claims the murderers were hired by Ishaq, another Jewish doctor; 2- a telegraph from Muhammad Yusuf from Kurdistan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran, regarding the murder of Haq Nazar by Fattah, son of ‘Abd al-Rahman, Ma‘ruf, and another person -- all Ottoman nationals. The murderers are in jail but ‘Abd al-Rahman is conducting a sit-in at Hajar Khatun Imamzadah and the house of Shaykh Shukr Allah. The writer requests accountability from the...
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Correspondence regarding the pension for ‘Abbas Khan's wife, 1903
Including 1- a petition by ‘Abbas Khan's wife, the former official in Sulaymaniyah, who worked for the Government of Iran but had Ottoman nationality, and neither government attended to his wife's rights. The Iranian Government has asked her to go to Kurdistan to receive a promissory note, but having ten children, she is not able to do so. She requests half of the payment in Sulaymaniyah. 2- A letter by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ‘Abbas Khan's wife states that according to the Shah's decree, ‘Abbas Khan is not eligible for any pensions and the hundred and twenty tumans he used to...
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Eight landowners to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma
Letter from eight landowners (from Charamlah) to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma. The letter includes a report about peasants of Charamlah buying sheep, the problems of this transaction for the peasants, the possibility of their migration to Kurdistan, and having twenty women sent among the peasants to stop them from migrating.
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Ibrahim to Nasir al-Mulk
Letter from Ibrahim to Nasir al-Mulk, the governor of Kurdistan, in which he talks about the health of his children, Aqa Muhsin and Khanum Kuchulu, after their erysipelas disease and Aqa Mirza Hasan Hakim Bashi's mistake in using the right dosage of sodium bromide to treat them. He finds it surprising that Hakim Bashi would have made that mistake, since, even though he did not know French, he had a book containing an inventory of the old and new medicines. Ibrahim also tells Nasir al-Mulk about Haydar Mirza, known as Shahzadah Hakim, and, if he is still living in Kurdistan, that his...
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Jahan Khanum's claim to her share of inheritance, 1901-1904
In 1901 or 1902, Muhammad Mirza (originally from Yerevan and a resident of Sanandaj) writes in his will while in Karbalaʼ and on his way to pilgrimage to Mecca, declaring that part of his property should be sent to ʻAtabat. After his death, Jahan Khanum from Kurdistan asks for her share of the inheritance, claiming that she is his only inheritor, but this claim needs to be proven in the presence of a religious judge. The item includes documents such as Muhammad Riza's will, the division of his property, a copy of a document acknowledging Jahan Khanum as an inheritor, Muhammad Mirza's wives'...
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Letter from Molitor to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1904
Letter from the head of the Kurdistan and Kirmanshahan Customs, Molitor, regarding Mas‘ud Khan, the Custom officer of Mahi Dasht, who took a woman with a bad reputation to Mahi Dasht and was laid off work as a consequence; Mas‘ud Khan has a gun and bullets but he has not yet returned them. Molitor asks Shahzadah Sa‘id al-Sultan to take the guns and ammunition from Mas‘ud Khan and hand them over to the Custom Office, but nothing was done; the author asks the recipient to order Mas‘ud Khan to hand over the gun and bullets.
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Letter to Mirza Muhammad Riza Muʻtamad
Letter from [Asad Allah Khan son of Aqa Khan] to Muhammad Riza Muʻtamad [of Kurdistan]. In this letter, Muhammad Riza Muʻtamad is reprimanded by Asad Allah Khan for failing to collect and give payments to Valiyah [the wife of the governor of Kurdistan] for two years.
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Letter to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma
Part of a long letter; includes ‘Izzat al-Saltanah's request to take a different road other than Hamadan for her trip, Dadah Khanum and Aqa Naqi Khan staying in Tehran, and the writer's estimation of the expenses of their stay in Tehran; some of the pages are missing.
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Letters from Najm al-Saltanah to ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma
Najm al-Saltanah's letters to her brother ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, including the following: one about a disease outbreak in Tehran and the health of various women at the court; one requesting her brother's advice on several properties, including Ismaʻil Abad and the qanat of Rustam Abad; some about the appointment of her husband Vakil al-Mulk to the Ardabil government; one about her decision to cancel her pilgrimage at Farmanfarma's request; one about her desire that Muzaffar al-Din Mirza (then the crown prince) permit his daughter (Ashraf Fakhr al-Dawlah, daughter of Surur...
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