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Letter
Letter regarding the situation of the peasants in the villages of Sis, Amir Zakariya, and Malik-zadah; states that villagers have sold all their belongings and are short of food and responds to the addressee's assertion about making some soup and giving it to the villagers.
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Rubabah Khanum to Munshi Bashi, 14 August 1918
Rubabah Khanum, daughter of Mirza Mahmud Shaykh al-Islam, writes to Mirza Hasan Khan Munshi Bashi about the food shortage in Tehran and asks for documents related to the peasants of Mahmud Abad.
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Letter, 1914
Discusses peasants working hard on a rice farm, paying their wages, and being hopeful for a good crop; the writer mentions that he is not aware of a Najaf peasant's salary, and he asks the addressee to send him a copy of the salary contract.
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Letter
About: receiving Aqa Sadiq's letter and gratitude for the eight bottles of rose water and pussy willow water; Habib Allah Khan, who has not yet responded; Sarkar ‘Illiyah will deliver the letters of Aqa-yi Muntasir and Haji Isma‘il ‘Arab; not receiving the ten mans [unit of weight] of butter that Sawlat al-Saltanah sent and asks the addressee to follow up and see if the peasants have cheated; the marriage ceremony of Haji Abu al-Fath Khan's daughter; work-related issues, salaries, and other family news.
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Letter from Muhammad ‘Amiri to his wife, Azarmidukht, 1942
Includes greetings and talks about his travels, the weather, a swarm of grasshoppers, shortage of agricultural products, and hardships of the peasants
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Muhammad Taqi to ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma
Muhammad Taqi writes about several issues including the dispute he has with Khurramrud elders, relocating his wife because of the potential threat against her from the Khurramrud elders, and going to Asadabad at ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma's request. At the end, he talks about his state of desperation and the hardships his family, peasants, and himself have been through and asks ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma for help.
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Petition of Karbalayi Musayyab and Karbalayi Yusuf
Petition of Karbalayi Musayyab and Karbalayi Yusuf, addressed to a woman, regarding the master's order to collect aid from the peasants to give to the poor and the way the sheriff and village chief have been sabotaging the process
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Letters of Rubabah Khanum
Letters of Rubabah Khanum, daughter of Mirza Mahmud Shaykh al-Islam, about the management of her properties in Mahmud Abad and financial and family affairs.
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Letter, 1924
About: sending three pairs of socks and a handkerchief via ‘Abd al-‘Ali Bayg and a rug in the near future; obtaining butter from Mr. Sawlat for making ghee; attaching the two letters received from the village; warning Aqa Sultan about the injustice of his attendant, Hazrat Quli, toward the new peasants of Aqdagh village; the rent from the village of Zaviyah; sending wheat and flour to the addressee's household, since obtaining bread from the bazaar is not beneficial for the ‘Amidiyah family; Buyuk Khanum's attending the Namus school; purchasing sour grapes for the household; and Sarkar...
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Letters to Saʻid al-Sultan
Letters to Saʻid al-Sultan: from Muhammad Sadiq, about the destruction wrought by the gendarmerie; from Aflatun Adibi Kurdistani, apologizing for the delay in correspondence and asking for money from the Gumah valley transaction; from [Muhammad?], son of Haji Qavam, sending Nawruz greetings and a bonus, conveying his appreciation of Saʻid al-Sultan's visiting his family, and sending greetings from himself and his wife, ʻAliyah Khanum, to [Bihjat Khanum]; from [Muhammad?], son of Haji Qavam, complaining about Saʻid al-Sultan's delay in replying to two of Muhammad's previous letters in the...
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