Letters from Asiyah Khanum (daughter of Rukhsarah Khanum and Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam) to her father; her sister, ʻAziz al-Muluk; her stepmother, Sakinah Khanum; and to Munshi Bashi.
Letters include: two letters to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam (ʻAziz al-Muluk's father) written by ʻAziz al-Muluk and her husband, Sayyid ʻAbd Allah Amjad al-Vizarah; several letters from ʻAziz al-Muluk to her father about family matters and buying jewelry and an embroidered textile (zarduzi); a letter from her to her sister, Asiyah Khanum; another letter concerns a marital dispute.
Letters include the following: Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam writes to Mirza Hasan Khan Munshi Bashi about a trip to Tunikabun; about the division of a shipment of lettuce among family members; about the government's seizure of the properties of Qamar Khanum, daughter of Sa‘d al-Saltanah; Mirza Hasan instructs Munshi Bashi to give 700 tumans to Rafʻat al-Saltanah Mulkara, wife of his deceased father, Mirza Masʻud Shaykh al-Islam, to settle a family inheritance dispute; about the state of affairs since the constitutional revolution, and the efforts of his wife, Rukhsarah Khanum, to get him to...
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