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Regarding ‘Azra Khanum's salary, 1910
‘Azra Khanum, the thirty-two year old daughter of the late Mirza Mahmud Afshar and wife of ‘Abd al-Husayn Khan Ilbaygi of the Afshar tribe, from Asad Abad of Hamadan and resident of Savujbulagh, and represented by Mirza Muhammad Khan, receives her inherited salary of eight kharvar and eighty mans (kharvar and man are units of weight) of barley, which belonged to her since 1885 or 1886. Documents include an invoice with a note on verso regarding Nasir al-Din Shah's decree in 1885 or 1886 about ‘Azra Khanum's right to this salary as well as ‘Azra Khanum's power of attorney to Mirza Muhammad...
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Letter from Elizabeth Stewart, 1923
The letter, written in two installments, details what the author has been doing as Dr. Coy fell ill and left to travel to America through Baghdad and Haifa, and Dr. Moody is also ill, so the upkeep work of the school has fallen to her. She gives an update on the school finances, as well. She also mentions a trunk the addressee sent her, and expresses gratitude for the effort in getting the trunk and its contents to her; as well as sending an illumined book of Baha’i scriptures back to the addressee, along with a letter to be delivered to a woman, Maggie, who the author worries will insult...
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