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Regarding Rahat Khanum's claim about a burglary, 1899
A Jewish woman, Rahat Khanum, claims her silk clothes have been stolen. Out of four suspects, they have only interrogated the writer's servant, who has denied the charge. Rahat Khanum has refused to pay for the court expenses and is currently staying out of sight. The writer complains about the unclear status of the servant.
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Report of the Fars Police Department, 1918
Describes a robbery at the house of Abu Talib Pilah-var (retailer) by two women
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Mustafa to ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1913
Mustafa reports about the city, including the story of taking several prostitutes to the house of Haj Shaykh Baqir Mujtahid to execute Shariʻah law. He also talks about the harassment of a Jewish woman. The author has sent two copies of this report, one to Tehran and the other to Tabriz.
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Correspondence regarding the murder of Hakim Haq Nazar, 1899
Including 1- a petition by Rahil to Mushir al-Dawlah, regarding the murder of her husband, Haq Nazar, a Jewish doctor in Kurdistan. She claims the murderers were hired by Ishaq, another Jewish doctor; 2- a telegraph from Muhammad Yusuf from Kurdistan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran, regarding the murder of Haq Nazar by Fattah, son of ‘Abd al-Rahman, Ma‘ruf, and another person -- all Ottoman nationals. The murderers are in jail but ‘Abd al-Rahman is conducting a sit-in at Hajar Khatun Imamzadah and the house of Shaykh Shukr Allah. The writer requests accountability from the...
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Photo album
Photo album belonging to Firouz Firouz, with marginal notes around the photographs.