Correspondence from Habib Nafisi to Ehsan Yarshater

Correspondence from Habib Nafisi to Ehsan Yarshater dated 4 December 1968 confirming the receipt of a tone booster and the submission of a conference paper. Habib Nafisi (1908-84), a prominent educator and cabinet minister, served as Iran's Labor Minister from 1946 to 1950. He drafted and helped pass the country's first labor and employment regulations into law during this period. In 1951, Nafisi was appointed by Mohammad Mossadegh as Iran's ambassador to the USA. As a member of the Zahedi cabinet (1953-55), Nafisi held office as Iran's Minister of Industry. He founded Tehran Polytechnic (now Amirkabir University of Technology) in 1956. In the same year, Nafisi instituted the Nafisi Tehnicum in Tehran, one of the country's earliest private STEM colleges, which was later integrated into the K. N. Toosi University of Technology.