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Ishaq Kalimi to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma
The writer asks the addressee to investigate the murder of his father and his appointee, and talks about the unfairness of this incident especially because he could not find their bodies.
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Petition of I‘tibar al-Dawlah's wife regarding her poverty, 1904
Petition of the wife of I‘tibar al-Dawlah to Shaykh [illegible] regarding her and her deceased husband's poverty, asking him to review the testimony of the people who have confirmed this and add his own comment. Shaykh has written a note confirming I‘tibar al-Dawlah’s poverty.
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Complaint by Khvajah Ghukiz about a Chaldean woman, 1909
Complaint by Khvajah Ghukiz, son of Khvajah Minas Tajir Bashi (merchant), to Kashif al-Saltanah in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding his annoyance with a Chaldean woman. He threatens to kill the woman if she comes to bother him at his house or in the street again.
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Fatimah's petition
Petition by Fatimah, grandchild of the late Karbalayi ‘Ivaz ‘Ali from Kuh Kamarah to the Friday prayer-leader of Fars against Mirza Muhammad and Mirza Murtaza Bazzaz (cotton dealer) who have usurped the late ‘Ivaz ‘Ali's house which belonged to his inheritors
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Petition by ‘Aziz al-Dawlah, 1922 or 1923
Copy of a petition by ‘Aziz al-Dawlah, wife of the late Mulk Ara’, requesting her mahr and her daughter's property
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Petition to collect husband's rights
Copy of the petition written by the wife of the late Haji Muhammad ‘Alaqah-band [silk dealer] from Shiraz to the governor of Fars asking him to retrieve her entitlement from a sale agreement between her husband and Mu‘tamad al-Sultan Muhammad Hasan Khan Sartip [brigadier], son of the late Fath‘ali Khan from Nayriz, over one-sixth of Hasanabad farm of Nayriz
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Mirza Baqir's petition about the death of his wife and child, 1919
Mirza Baqir, an employee of the Finance Ministry in Kirman, claims that while he had left Hutkan to collect his wages in Jiruft, Mirza Muhammad ‘Ali from Sarbanan had taken the writer's wife and his two children along with their household furnishing to his home. A few days later, Mirza Baqir's wife passed away and his children were sent to Hutkan on a pack animal. One of them stopped drinking milk and died eight days later. He is asking for justice.
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‘Azra's letter for confirming her marriage and mahr, 1935
Letter written by ‘Azra, daughter of Haj Mirza Husayn Sharif, to Mirza Sayyid Ahmad Pish-namaz [the prayer leader] requesting him to confirm her marriage to the late Mirza Muhammad Riza with a mahr of three hundred tumans, ten misqals [unit of weight] of gold, a Qurʼan worth five tumans, and ten misqals of silk. He confirms her claims and points out that she had settled one hundred and fifty tumans of her mahr with the late Mirza Muhammad Riza.
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Regarding Marziyah Khanum's salary, 1910
Petition by Marziyah Khanum, daughter of the late Mirza Ishaq, to the Majlis inquiring about her salary payment of sixty tumans that had been stopped. She received this salary from Qazvin in accordance with a decree by Nasir al-Din Shah. Marziyah Khanum describes the hardship this has brought to her life as she is responsible for three underage children after her husband's death; the Majlis sends a copy of Marziyah Khanum's petition to the Ministry of Finance and they notify the Qazvin Finance Office to resume the payment of her salary; correspondence regarding the salary of Marziyah Khanum...
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Petition regarding a burglary, 1910
Petition by Karbalayi ‘Abd al-Muhammad from Kurdistan to the Ministry of Interior regarding the burglary of his house as they were preparing for his deceased wife’s ceremony. One hundred-fifty tumans and some household items were stolen, which were traced back to a nearby house. The suspect is one of the four residents of the house and is named ‘Aziz. He claims to be an Ottoman national, but the writer asserts that he is a peasant from Rashih-Dih village in Marivan, Kurdistan. He complains against Mujarrab al-Dawlah, the government official who has freed the suspect.