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Correspondence related to Muzaffar al-Din Shah's heirs
Petition on the letterhead of the Majlis signed by some of Muzaffar al-Din Shah's inheritors: Aqdas al-Dawlah, Qamar al-Saltanah, ‘Izzat al-Dawlah, Fakhr al-Dawlah, Shukuh al-Dawlah, Aqdas al-Saltanah, Anvar al-Dawlah, A‘zam al-Dawlah, and Nur al-Saltanah. They complain about the confiscation of some property by the government. According to the signatories, these properties were partly the personal belongings of Muzaffar al-Din Shah that he had purchased when he was the Crown Prince in Azerbaijan and partly the properties he inherited from his mother, Shukuh al-Dawlah, and her maternal...
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Letter about visiting the Crown Prince in Tabriz
The writer talks about his mission to Tabriz and visit to the Crown Prince [Muzaffar al-Din Mirza], how this mission had failed and the Crown Prince had refused to see him, saying that he did not need a tutor. He describes the Crown Prince's outrage and adds that Shukuh al-Saltanah knew all along that this mission was doomed to fail. He then gives an account of how he had paid his debts to the butcher, the grocer, and the draper before leaving Tabriz as well as his meeting with Zill al-Sultan. He also mentions Shukuh al-Saltanah's complaint and disappointment about how the Crown Prince did...