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Letter from Qamar al-Muluk Isfandiyari
Probably to her son, Muhammad ‘Amiri; includes greetings and family news and prayers for Fatimah’s recovery, her illness, and Aman Allah’s return from Tehran
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Siqat al-Saltanah Saduqi to Mirza Isma‘il Khan Saduqi
Letter from Siqat al-Saltanah Saduqi to his brother, probably Mirza Isma‘il Khan Saduqi; discusses political issues; complains about Sardar As‘ad's actions; asks his brother to follow up about his situation and says that he would ask him to visit if he gets the governorship of Sabzivar, but will otherwise have to leave Mashhad, as he cannot afford it.
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Letter from Sarah Clock to Mrs. Platt, 1916
Expresses joy for receiving Mrs. Platt's letter, and discusses the success and progress of the Tarbiyat girls' school, including Mrs. Stewart's great teaching skills for first aid and the body's anatomy; complains about the school system, like how one out of five men in the school committee is against Mrs. Kappes and makes it difficult for her to teach; the committee asked Mrs. Kappes to take over the school finances but they would not pay for the cost; writing more to the addressee and keeping her posted after Mrs. Kappes meets with the five men this afternoon and when things get settled;...
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Muhammad ‘Ali Nizam Mafi (Salar Mu‘azzam) to Riza Quli Khan Nizam Mafi (Nizam al-Saltanah), 1907
Muhammad ‘Ali Nizam Mafi (Salar Mu‘azzam) writes to his father, Riza Quli Khan Nizam Mafi (Nizam al-Saltanah and reports the death of Muzaffar al-Din Shah four days earlier (there were two days of morning ceremonies and the cornoation occurred on the day this letter was written), saying that his corpse is at Takiyah Dawlat and despite his own wish to be buried in Karbala’, clerics disagree. In other news, he describes how a German citizen and his wife were robbed and [sexually] assaulted in Kahrizak and that the members of the Shah's cavalry responsible for this have been arrested and are...
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Letter from Sarah Clock to Miss Boylan, 1910
The writer talks about arriving to Batumi; their concern about carrying medicine in the trunk of their car without having permission, but the customs officers did not find them; getting a plate full of nuts and candied fruit from ‘Abd al-Baha’, saving most of it, and giving some to their host; and a promise to their host to get a letter from the addressee that describes the details about Meshkat el Azkar [Mashriq al-Adhkar].
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Miscellaneous letters addressed to Sakinah Khanum
Miscellaneous letters addressed to Sakinah Khanum, daughter of ʻAbbas Khan Tunikabuni Muntazim al-Mulk and second wife of Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam, including the following: one in which the author, possibly Sakinah Khanum's sister, congratulates her about her new house; one in which a woman from Tunikabun writes to her with news of family servants; Khayr al-Nisaʼ writes to her and mentions that she has sent a gift of orange blossoms; one in which her father, ʻAbbas Khan Tunikabuni Muntazim al-Mulk, writes to her; and from her sister-in-law, Zahra Khanum. The related envelope includes a...
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Correspondence of Surur al-Saltanah and Amir Hushang
Correspondence between Surur al-Saltanah (daughter of Zarrin Kulah Khanum and Khazin al-Mulk and wife of ‘Abd al-Husayn Taymurtash) and her son, Amir Hushang Taymurtash: 1- Surur al-Saltanah writes to Hushang in London from Berlin, and, among other things, discusses the problems with finding a place for Hushang to stay during the break. She mentions how busy Papa (Taymurtash) is with the negotiations about the oil treaty (December 17, 1932); 2- Surur al-Saltanah's letter to Hushang, sending greetings to Mr. Nuri and Dr. Young, and thanking her son for his Sunday prayer for his parents....
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Correspondence related to Siqat al-Saltanah Saduqi and Mirza Isma‘il Khan Saduqi, 1924-1925
See related items for each individual letter and its description.
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Miscellaneous correspondence
Miscellaneous correspondence, including the following: a letter from ʻAlimuhammad Qasimi to ʻAliyah Khanum [Subh-i Azal] inviting her to visit Iran with a prayer on the verso; an envelope addressed to the Dawlatabadi sisters and sent to Mirza Muhammad ʻAli Khan Ansari's home address with a note on the verso: "there is a piece of handwriting by your late father [Mirza Hadi Dawlatabadi];" a letter from a Bengali scholar to Subh-i ʻAzal requesting books on the Babi religion, so that he could decide about its validity; three letters and a prayer, two of them are written by Shaykh Ahmad [Ruhi...
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Letters from Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam to Munshi Bashi
Letters include the following: Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam writes to Mirza Hasan Khan Munshi Bashi about a trip to Tunikabun; about the division of a shipment of lettuce among family members; about the government's seizure of the properties of Qamar Khanum, daughter of Sa‘d al-Saltanah; Mirza Hasan instructs Munshi Bashi to give 700 tumans to Rafʻat al-Saltanah Mulkara, wife of his deceased father, Mirza Masʻud Shaykh al-Islam, to settle a family inheritance dispute; about the state of affairs since the constitutional revolution, and the efforts of his wife, Rukhsarah Khanum, to get him to...
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