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Petition to Nuzhat al-Dawlah
The peasants of the village of Turkaman write to Nuzhat al-Dawlah regarding compliance with her order for their cooperation in helping the poor. They state that everyone has been involved except Musa Kalantar, Karbalayi Khalil, and Hamd Allah Kadkhuda [the village chief], who have enticed the steward, Mashhadi Muhammad Aqa, to send a faulty report to Nuzhat al-Dawlah. They explain that the purpose of their gathering has merely been to follow her orders to help the poor. They also mention that no one has received anything from Nuzhat al-Dawlah's nine thousand and five hundred-tuman donation,...
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Letter to ‘Amid Lashkar
Probably to ‘Amid Lashkar; regarding: household and local news -- receiving the payment of a debt from Abu al-Fath Mirza and spending all of it on charcoal, etc.; the purchase of sheep; responding to Jalal Lashkar; Haji Mirza ‘Ali Aqa is interested to buy Zaviyah and Varaqah; not having received the two tumans that addressee had sent for [his] sister, Fatimah Khanum; the Department of Health's ban on abortion and summoning doctors and midwives, including Fatimah Khanum, to the Department to inform them about the mandate; asking the addressee not to write with pencil; the writer can send pen...
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Questions and answers, 1925
Questions for Shaykh ‘Abd al-Karim Mujtahid Ha’iri, regarding various issues related to prayers, fasts, and ablution after intercourse, as well as animal slaughter
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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...