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Letter about Major Imbrie's injury
Letter on the letterhead of the Prime Minister reporting the murder of the U.S Vice Consul in Iran, Major Imbrie. According to the report, after the news of a miracle at the Saqqa Khanah on Shaykh Hadi avenue arrived and people start gathering in front of the Saqqa Khanah, Major Imbrie, along with another American friend, went to the scene and started photographing the crowd. Some people who were offended by the fact that their women were being photographed attacked him. He was injured and was taken to the police hospital and, despite the attempts of European and Iranian doctors, died after...
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Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah to Muhammad ‘Ali Nizam Mafi (Salar Mu‘azzam), 1910
Zahra Sultan Nizam Mafi (‘Izzat al-Saltanah) writes to her brother, Muhammad ‘Ali Nizam Mafi (Salar Mu‘azzam), telling him family news and that thieves have been looting people's houses, including those of Vusuq al-Dawlah and Hishmat al-Dawlah in addition to their own. She also talks about the people of Tehran's fear of the passing comet and how they talked about the end of the universe.
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Regarding Zahra Khanum and Hajar Khanum's salaries, 1910
Documents include letters of salary confirmation for the wife and daughter of Mirza Ghulamhusayn who was murdered: Zahra Khanum (daughter of Mirza ‘Ali from Mirza Musa's family) and Hajar Khanum (wife of Haji Mirza Mahmud); and their identity verification and salary forms
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Request of Bahadur al-Saltanah's wife, 1922 or 1923
Documents include the following: letter from the Ministry of Finance to the Majlis, stating that Bahadur al-Saltanah's salary was cut because of his theft from the customhouse of Saqqiz and requesting that the Prime Minister accept the request of Bahadur al-Saltanah's wife and add her name to the list of stipendiaries if he accepts the request; letter from Bahadur al-Saltanah's wife, in which she writes that due to her husband's salary being cut off, she and her two sons, who are five and nine years old, are having financial difficulties because payments of stipend that they were supposed...
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Regarding Qamar Sultan Khanum and ‘Aliyah Khanum's salaries, 1910
Documents include letter of salary confirmation for the inheritors of Haji Sayyid Aqa who was killed during the destruction of the Majlis, Qamar Sultan Khanum (his wife and Shaykh Mahmud's daughter) and ‘Aliyah Khanum (his daughter); their power of attorney to Mirza Riza Khan from Gurgan to represent and receive their salaries; and Qamar Sultan Khanum's identity verification and salary form
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Regarding Kawkab Khanum and Sughra Khanum's salaries, 1910
Documents include letters of salary confirmation for Kawkab Khanum and Sughra Khanum (daughters of Mirza Yusuf and sisters of the late Muhammad); their power of attorney (along with their brothers, Muhammad Naqi and ‘Ali) to Mirza Husayn Hafiz al-Sihhah to represent and receive their salaries; and Kawkab Khanum and Sughra Khanum's identity verification and salary forms
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Letter from Elizabeth Stewart to Isabella Brittingham, 1917
About the death of Tahirah Qurrat al-ʻAyn as told to Dr. Moody, by Hasan Adib
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Letter from Hamid al-Sultan to ‘Amid Lashkar, 1925
Probably from Hamid al-Sultan to ‘Amid Lashkar; discusses receiving a twenty-five tuman promissory note via the merchant of Dilmaqan and delivering it to Sarkar ‘Illiyah, the delay in the payment of their salaries and other work-related issues, the cold weather, leveling of the roads, the new street, demolition of Nawbar bazaar; notes that the repairs have not yet reached their neighborhood and that the writer has not received any news from the villages because of the cold weather and closed roads; reports that Muhammad Khan and Haji ‘Abd Allah Khan have come on foot and that Sawlat...
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Regarding Nargis Khatun and Fatimah Khatun's salaries, 1910
Documents include letter of salary confirmation for Nargis Khatun and Fatimah Khatun, wife and daughter of Mashhadi Taqi who was killed; and Fatimah Khatun's identity verification and salary form
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Muhammad Taqi Nizam Mafi to Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah, 1910 or 1911
Muhammad Taqi Nizam Mafi writes to his sister, Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah. He comments on the murder of Sayyid ‘Abd Allah, talks about the weather in Finland, the son of Farmanfarma, and how his skill in speaking Persian has declined since he has moved from Switzerland.
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