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Copy of the telegram from Sahib Khanum to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1912
Sahib Khanum (from Tuysirkan) talks about her husband, Iʻzam al-Mamalik (from Tuysirkan), being forced to go to Hamadan and then Tehran because of the animosity of the princes from Tuysirkan, and their pillage and plunder, and their appointing Jaʻfar Quli Mirza as the Governor of Tuysirkan regardless of the consequences. She mentiones that her son, ʻAlikhan, along with seven more men, was murdered, and asks ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma for justice.
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Letter from Talʻat al-Dawlah to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma
Talʻat al-Dawlah, daughter of Nadim al-Saltanah and wife of Haji ʻAliriza Khan, talks about the hardships she faced after her husband's death. She describes how agents looted her house and seized fifty thousand tumans worth of property that Haji ʻAliriza Khan had transferred to their daughter, Muhtaram, before passing away. Also, her husband's nephew sent a telegram to Tehran claiming his share of these belongings. The writer notes the cruelty her and her daughter experienced, and asks the addressee for help and justice.
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Regarding displacement of Targavir village people, 1907
A telegram from Imamquli in Urumiyah to Atabak A‘zam in Tehran regarding the pillage of Mavanah and Targavir villages by the Ottoman nomads, and the killing of eighteen men and sixty-six women and children. Around three thousand people, mostly Christians, from the neighboring villages, have fled to Urumiyah and are in need of food and clothing; the writer has been collecting aid from the elite and merchants of Urumiyah and is asking for the government's assistance, suggesting that any aid should be delivered via the Christian clergy who will distribute it among their people.
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Letter from the wife of Mirza Haji Aqa to Iran-i naw, 1909
Regarding the arrest of her husband and being evicted from her house by Nizam al-Saltanah
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Correspondence of Malakah Iran and Zahir al-Sultan with the Ministry of Finance, 1916 to 1918
Correspondence amongst Malakah Iran (Furugh al-Dawlah), the Treasury, and the Ministry of Finance regarding the approval of the Cabinet to pay five thousand tumans to Malakah Iran to compensate for damages to her house when it was bombarded along with the Majlis during the Constitutional Revolution, and requesting the remaining two thousand and five hundred tumans. After Malakah Iran's death, her son, Muhammad Nasir Zahir al-Sultan, asks the Ministry of Finance to account for the remaining money as part of his taxes of seventy-six kharvars (unit of weight) of barley from Mast Khuban village...
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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