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Complaint by Unsiyah Baygum, 1910
Alaviyah Unsiyah Baygum, wife of Nayib Javad, talks about being evicted from her own house, along with her five young children, after her husband abandoned them
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Baba Ganjah Muhammad'uf's petition to Russian Consulate, 1920
The writer describes the way that Haji Javad took advantage of his illness and deceitfully obtained his signature on a petition; the division of properties among the inheritors leaves out the share of the late Sughra Khanum, the daughter of the late Aqa Mashhadi Najaf, whose inheritor is her husband Sulayman Bayg; the usurpation of the writer's properties by Haji Javad and Aqa Riza [his nephew], the share of Aqa Riza's late mother, who was also the writer's wife; and Hasan Aqa's share (one-fifth from his partnership in addition to his mother's inheritance); he requests that the consulate...
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Written by Mihrtaj Rakhshan, 1909
Principal of Madrisah-i Umm al-Madaris [Mihrtaj Rakhshan], daughter of Imam al-Hukama, asks women of the homeland to support their country through education and making donations to the government