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Beating wives, 1909
Akbar Qazzaq (cossack), who returned from the battle in Tabriz, beats his wives everyday
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Regarding the nationality of two thousand families in Kurdistan, 1910
Letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from their office in Kurdistan regarding the nationality of about two thousand families with Ottoman nationality, and restoring their Iranian nationality
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Mustafa to ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1913
Mustafa reports about the city, including the story of taking several prostitutes to the house of Haj Shaykh Baqir Mujtahid to execute Shariʻah law. He also talks about the harassment of a Jewish woman. The author has sent two copies of this report, one to Tehran and the other to Tabriz.
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Complaint against Muhammad Baqir Bayg, 1910
Correspondence regarding a complaint against Muhammad Baqir Bayg, a Russian national, for plundering peasants from the Kutkuti clan, which resulted in the killing of a woman and the injuring of a girl
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Riza Khan's wife's fraudulent document, 1909 to 1910
Correspondence between the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its centers in Savujbulagh and Tabriz regarding the murder of Riza Khan, father of Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali Khan Sharaf, and the fraudulent letter of transference produced by his wife. Riza Khan’s belongings, including household furnishings and jewelry, is now under the ownership of his wife and Sardar Mukri. An agent has been sent to Muhammad Husayn Khan Sardar Mukri by the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Savujbulagh, but the writer asks for a special agent from the Ministry.
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Regarding the affair of Khanum Taj and Sayyid Karim, 1925
In a letter to Hujjat al-Islam Mirza Sadiq Aqa, the writer describes how Sayyid Karim has faked the divorce of Khanum Taj, daughter of Riza Khan Shuja‘ Lashkar and wife of Mirza Habib Allah Muntakhib Daftar, and they have fled from Amirabad village to Tabriz. After Mirza Habib Allah's complaint, Sayyid Karim bribed two Mullas and forced Mirza Habib Allah to divorce his wife in exchange for two villages, owned by Khanum Taj. Subsequently, it becomes clear that the two villages had already been sold to someone else and that Khanum Taj was four months pregnant prior to the divorce. Mirza Habib...
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Complaint about wife's abduction, 1911
Panus Ibn Sulayman Kaldani (Chaldean) from Tabriz claims that Monsieur Gausine, a Belgian national who manages the customs department in Azarbayjan, has abducted the writer's wife
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Regarding complaints by the Christians of Azarbayjan, 1910
Correspondence among the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, their office in Urumiyah, a representative of the Christian population in Azarbayjan, and the Ottoman Embassy, regarding the complaints by the Christians against the nomadic Kurds who plunder their villages and abduct Christian girls, as well as the complaint by the French and American embassies in support of the Christians.
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Letter from Tayirah to Isabella Brittingham, 1909
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Abduction of Christian girls by Kurds, 1910
Includes correspondence among the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its office in Urumiyah, the Ministry of Interior, the Iranian Embassy, and the Ottoman Embassy, regarding the abduction of three Christian girls by Kurds in the villages in the vicinity of Urumiyah. First, regarding Katrin, who was abducted by Qasim and his group, and was taken to Haydarlu village, includes the account of freeing the girl and her testimony on being taken by force; and the consequent revenge of the Kurds against the people of Haydarlu who helped in the girl's rescue and injuring Khalil Bayg and killing his...