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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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Battering servant girl and her death, 1911
The servant girl died after she was punched in the face by Lutf Allah Khan's wife for breaking a glass.
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News of accident and its refutation, 1910
In issue no. 110, there is news of a woman being run over by the horse of Asad Allah (servant of Mahmud-zadah). In the next issue, Abu al-Qasim Mahmud-zadah refutes any relationship with Asad Allah and this incident.
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Delayed salaries of Aminah Gul and ‘Ajab Naz, 1912
Letter from the Ministry of Finance to Monsieur Lalu [?], the Treasury General, regarding the delayed paychecks of Aminah Gul (daughter of Habib Allah Khan) and ‘Ajab Naz (daughter of Nazar ‘Ali Khan), servants of Nasir al-Din Shah; along with their payment invoice
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Infant's death, 1911
A woman from Kirmanshah claims that when she requested her money from Haji ‘Isa, he ordered his servant Farhad to beat her, which caused her one-month-old infant to fall and die an hour later while she was at the police station.
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Petitions by wives and servants of Nasir al-Din Shah, 1914 to 1915
Correspondence of Bala Khanum Buzurg (Marahim al-Saltanah), Sakinah Sultan Khanum (Haji Vaqar al-Dawlah), Nush Afarin Khanum (Haji Matbu‘ al-Dawlah), Haji Zahra Khanum, Khadijah Khanum (Akhtar Zaman), Khan-zadah Khanum, Fatimah Sultan Khanum (from Tehran), and Agha Shahzadah (Nasir al-Din Shah's wives) and Nasib Malik Khanum, Khadijah Khanum, and Sakinah Khanum (Nasir al-Din Shah's servants) with the Minister of Finance (Muhtasham al-Saltanah) asking to receive their salaries in a monthly manner, the same way that Nasir al-Din Shah's other wives and servants are being paid; the Ministry of...
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Ghulam Husayn Khan's endowment, 1919
Ghulam Husayn Khan Sardar Mujallal, son of Haj Sulayman Khan Bihjat al-Dawlah, has transferred his properties near Kirman and Bam to Mirza Husayn Khan Sardar Nusrat, son of Murtaza Quli Khan Vakil al-Mulk, in exchange for some crystal candy. The condition is that Mirza Husayn Khan endows these properties after Ghulam Husayn Khan’s death. Nine hundred and thirty tumans is the annual budget to cover the costs of hiring people for reading the Qurʼan and rawzah, repairs, cleaning the tomb in Najaf, and expenses of coffee, sugar cubes, tobacco, charcoal, water pipes, and lamps. Aman Allah, son...
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Letters of Sadiqah Dawlatabadi to ʻAbd al-Husayn Sanʻatizadah
Several letters from Sadiqah Dawlatabadi to ʻAbd al-Husayn Sanʻatizadah including the following: one in which she congratulates Sanʻatizadah on his betrothal to Qamar Taj and thanks him for a loan of 1,500 francs; one in which she refers to ʻAbd al-Husayn's recent appendectomy; one in which she writes to him about her studies and life in Paris and her hopes to improve Iran; and one in which she writes about the differences between life in France and Iran.
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Correspondence regarding the murder of Haydar Quli, 1919
Investigation of the murder of Haydar Quli with the order of Hisam al-Mulk's wife. Includes correspondence among the Governors of Savah and Zarand, Tehran, and Hamadan. According to a report by the gendarmerie, Hisam al-Mulk's wife stopped at Gharq Abad village on her way to Hamadan. During the night, Haydar Quli entered her house intending to commit robbery but one of the servants arrested him. In the morning, while he attempted to escape, he was shot in the back by the servant. However, the peasants of Gharq Abad claimed in a petition that there was a fight between Haydar Quli and one of...
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Letter from Shams Kasma’i to Iran-i naw, 1909
From Ashgabat, Russia; about women's education and employment
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