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Ruqiyah Khvajah-nuri (Sharafat al-Dawlah) and Bahman Khazini
Inscription on verso: "Beyrouth [Beirut], February 14, 1959, Bahman at the age of fifteen"
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Letters from Nizam al-Saltanah to Riza Quli Khan Mafi
Letters from Husayn Quli Khan Nizam al-Saltanah Mafi to his nephew Riza Quli Khan Nizam al-Saltanah Mafi regarding the political situation of the country; his marital life; requesting food from Tehran; sending a horse to Sardar Arfa‘; sending Qavam al-Dawlah's documents; the cook's complaints and the price of goods; management and selling of his property to pay for his debts; the animosity of ‘Ali Asghar Khan Atabak Amin al-Sultan; his intention to travel to England; his son, Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali Khan and his travel to Belgium; insecurity in the borders of Azarbayjan; his relations with the...
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Maʻsumah Khanum and others in Beirut
From left: Hadi Nik Khvah, Maʻsumah Khanum, Baghdad Khatun (daughter of Keshvaralmolook), and Keshvaralmolook
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Letter about Surur al-Saltanah's trip
Includes the author's concern about the difficulties of Hazrat-i ʻUlya [Surur al-Saltanah]'s sea travel to ʻAtabat with her son, Nasir al-Din Mirza
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Letter probably from ‘Ayn al-Saltanah
Letter probably from Qahraman Mirza Salur (‘Ayn al-Saltanah) with a list of daily expenses; writing from Alamut, Qazvin, he talks about his bad health and expresses his disappointment that the recipient had not told him about her/his journey to Mecca, while also asking her/him to sacrifice a sheep on his behalf. ‘Ayn al-Saltanah also talks about his intention to travel to Beirut to visit Hurmuz Mirza [his nephew]. He asks about the well-being of Fakhr al-Mulk [probably his brother-in-law, Fakhr al-Mulk Ardalan] and his wife and expresses his satisfaction that Zari is accompanying the letter...
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Correspondence of Sadiqah Dawlatabadi regarding her attempt to cross the border
Several telegrams about the border crossing of Sadiqah Dawlatabadi en route to Europe, and a letter in which she protests her and her physician's detention by the army while attempting to cross the border en route to France for medical treatment.
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Khadijah Sultan to her husband Riza Quli Khan Salar Mu‘azzam
Letters from Khadijah Sultan to her husband Riza Quli Khan Salar Mu‘azzam: Khadijah Sultan's draft of a letter in which she complains about not receiving any news from her husband and asks him to write more often to her, and also writes about their children (Muhammad ʻAli Khan, Mirza Taqi Khan, and Zahra Sultan)'s well-being; a letter complaining about Riza Quli Khan's decision to send Muhammad ʻAli Khan (their son) to Beirut instead of London or Belgium, arguing that if Beirut were an appropriate place to study, Nizam al-Saltanah would have sent his son there or Sa‘d al-Mulk would have...
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Khadijah Sultan to her son Muhammad ‘Ali Khan
Letters from Khadijah Sultan to her son, Muhammad ‘Ali Khan: a letter in which she informs Muhammad ‘Ali Khan of her own wellbeing and of that of her younger son (Mahmud) and asks her husband not to send their son (Muhammad ‘Ali Khan) to Beirut (because of an epidemic); a letter describing Khadijah Sultan's happiness about the news of her son (Muhammad ‘Ali)'s arrival in Saint Petersburg and also her other son (Taqi)'s decision to join him there; a letter of gratitude for her son's gifts (a mirror and a comb); a letter about the well-being of the members of her family, travel to...
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Kamran Dowlatshahi's Interview
Kamran Dowlatshahi's interview conducted by Afsaneh Najmabadi and Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar in Davood Mirza Muzaffari Qajar's house on 30 October 2009. He shares his memories of family members, acquaintances, and the daily life and rituals of people, especially women, in the Qajar era.
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Interview with Poori Soltani
Interview with Poorandokht Soltani, conducted by Farshideh Mirbaghdadabadi and Afsaneh Najmabadi on 18 June 2013. After introducing members of her family in the previous and current generations (with reference to photographs and documents), she shares memories of her mother and grandmother, and in the end she mentions her marriage with Murtaza Kayvan.
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