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Letter from a Baha’i woman from Rasht, 1910
Addressed to Isabella Brittingham and some other Baha’i women; it includes the writer's happiness regarding the unity of East and West through the Baha’i faith and discusses the importance of promoting this religion
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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
Letter about family news, including the conflicts that Nizam al-Saltanah has to deal with in Shiraz; the political situation and accompanying sense of insecurity; the family's temporary move to Shimiran because of this and their return; the arrest of Mughis al-Saltanah, and the confiscation of Nizam al-Saltanah's property. The writer, a relative of ‘Izzat al-Saltanah, then talks about her or his attendance at her wedding.
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Letters from the wives of the murdered and accused murderer to Iran-i naw, 1911
Letter from Nimtaj from Rasht regarding the murder of Lutf‘ali Mu’addab al-Sultan, head of the Anzali police department; and a letter from Fatimah (daughter of ‘Ali Akbar from Isfahan and wife of Mujir al-Iyalah) whose husband is accused of murder
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Schools' enrollment statistics , 1911
By the Ministry of Education, based on statistics from schools in Tehran and the vicinity, and the news of an increase in the number of girls schools
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Miscellaneous correspondence
Miscellaneous correspondence, including the following: a letter from ʻAlimuhammad Qasimi to ʻAliyah Khanum [Subh-i Azal] inviting her to visit Iran with a prayer on the verso; an envelope addressed to the Dawlatabadi sisters and sent to Mirza Muhammad ʻAli Khan Ansari's home address with a note on the verso: "there is a piece of handwriting by your late father [Mirza Hadi Dawlatabadi];" a letter from a Bengali scholar to Subh-i ʻAzal requesting books on the Babi religion, so that he could decide about its validity; three letters and a prayer, two of them are written by Shaykh Ahmad [Ruhi...
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