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Correspondence regarding Maryam Khanum's claim, 1913 to 1915
Documents include a petition by Maryam Khanum, daughter of Shahzadah ‘Abbasquli from Kirman, about her three-year unpaid salaries; an order for an investigation by the Ministry of Finance; correspondence among Treasury Department officials and other centers consisting of a statement about Maryam Khanum's name registration as deceased in 1910 in Simnan, and the request for proof of identity from Mazandaran; presenting proof of identity and an affidavit; and the decree by Vusuq al-Dawlah, the Minister of Finance, for repayment of Maryam Khanum's salary.
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Letter from a female servant of a shrine
Letter from a woman who is the servant of a shrine, regarding the termination of her salary
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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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Petition by Ihtisham al-Dawlah's wife
Majd al-Dawlah's daughter (wife of Ihtisham al-Dawlah) writes to Nayib al-Saltanah, explaining how neither her father nor her husband could support her financially. She asks for a new job for her husband or a stipend for herself, so she could support her children and servants.
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Petition by Mulla Ibrahim's wife
Petition by the wife of Mulla Ibrahim, son of Mulla Rustam the watchmaker, whom the late shah converted to Islam, mentioning that she and her children have not received any salaries for some time.
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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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Sayyid Yahya Adib al-Shu‘ara’ to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1890
Haji Sayyid Yahya Adib al-Shu‘ara’ (from Tabriz)'s petition discusses the pension of Mulla Yahya and ʻAbd Allah Bayg, the hardships the author went through during his pilgrimage to Mecca, and the delay in paying one-third of Mulla Yahya's belongings to his inheritors. This delay was caused by the heir of Haji Muhammad Baqir who is the Kadkhuda (village chief) of a village, which is owned by Surur al-Saltanah. His appointees sabotaged the payment despite the efforts of Mustashar al-Sultan. At the end, the author refers to the necessity of paying the one-third and asks the addressee to...