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Tayirah Khanum and others
Tayirah Khanum (center, seated); Mirza Mustafa Khan, probably Tayirah Khanum's son-in-law (standing behind her); Sydney Sprague and C. M. Remey (seated next to her); the rest is likely Tayirah Khanum's family
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Group Portrait
From left: Fariburz Lisan al-Sultan and Sarvar Mihrban (the Zoroastrian Baha’i couple), Elizabeth Stewart, and Susan Moody
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Tayirah Khanum and others
Front row, from left: Mirza Mustafa Khan (probably Tayirah Khanum's son-in-law) and Tayirah Khanum; back, from left: Lillian Kappes, Sarah Clock, and Susan Moody
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Letter from Susan Moody to the Baha’is Assembly of Los Angeles, 1921
Mentions the Baha’i Assembly of Los Angeles's donations to a scholarship fund and to the Lillian Kappes' memorial fund
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Group Portrait
Wedding of Zoroastrian Baha’i couple, Rustam Jamshid and La‘l Khanum, in Tehran; in the presence of Arbab Jamshid and his wife Mrs. Caldwell, an American minister, as well as Susan Moody and Elizabeth Stewart, who are marked with numbers 1 and 2 on the photo
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Letter from Tayirah to Isabella Brittingham, 1909
The writer expresses her happiness in receiving the addressee's letter, and discusses the many problems for Baha’i followers in Iran due to lack of freedom; her belief in the Baha’i faith since she was twelve years old, and the mental and physical pressure imposed on her by her family for ten years because of her belief; and mentions that several of her family members, including her husband, converted to the Baha'i faith when they heard her words.
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Letter from Sarah Clock to Mrs. Platt, 1916
Mentions the addressee's correspondence; describes the Persian garden she and Mrs. Kappes are staying at for their vacation and rest, accompanied by Dr. Draeger, the head of German School, and his wife who converted to Baha’ism; how the wife of Dr. Draeger had fallen from the roof of the school and has a severe injury, and Sarah Clock is taking good care of her in the garden; notes that Mrs. Kappes has instituted many methods and improvements in the school that are copied by the other Persian girls' schools; and writes of Mrs. Kappes' meeting with the five men of the school committee and...
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Letter from Tayirah to Isabella Brittingham, 1909