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Marriage contract of Mah Sultan Khanum and Karbalayi Muhammad Husayn, 1888
Marriage contract of Mah Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Haji Muhammad, and Karbalayi Muhammad Husayn, the son of Haji Ghulam‘ali the merchant; the mahr is fifty tumans, twenty five misqals [unit of weight] of gold, and one-sixth of a house in Mukhtaran.
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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...
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Letter from Mahd-i ‘Ulya to Nasir al-Din Shah, 1863 or 1864
When the late Muhammad Shah's sisters visited Nasir al-Din Shah, Sahib Khanum asked Mahd-i ‘Ulya, in the presence of Anis al-Dawlah, to convey her plea to Nasir al-Din Shah. She claimed that her share of Punak property, now seized by Asif al-Dawlah and his sons, was her wedding gift from Zill al-Sultan. She was deprived of the property interest that she relied on for her family expenses. The houses in the property were destroyed and she was not given any compensation, which even Mirza Taqi Khan had stated was her right. Also, she only received two hundred tumans from the five hundred tumans...
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Copies of letters by Mirza Abu al-Qasim Qa’im Maqam Farahani
These writings include: a note on how Mirza Abu al-Qasim Qa’im Maqam's writing to his wife, Shahzadah Khanum, are written in humor; receipt of two payments: two thousand and four hundred and twenty tumans and one thousand and three hundred and forty tumans; a note from the copyist; addressed to Shahzadah Khanum Kuch about the disapproval of the Shah and Shahzadah Mirza Tahmasb regarding the divorce of his wife; from Khurasan to Shahzadah Khanum Kuch in Tabriz, informing her on Amirzadah Khusraw Mirza's travel to Tabriz, asking her to write him about the state of the household, the yard, the...
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Copies of letters by Mirza Abu al-Qasim Qa’im Maqam Farahani
These writings include: a note on how Mirza Abu al-Qasim Qa’im Maqam's writing to his wife, Shahzadah Khanum, are written in humor; receipt of two payments: two thousand and four hundred and twenty tumans and one thousand and three hundred and forty tumans; a note from the copyist; addressed to Shahzadah Khanum Kuch about the disapproval of the Shah and Shahzadah Mirza Tahmasb regarding the divorce of his wife; from Khurasan to Shahzadah Khanum Kuch in Tabriz, informing her on Amirzadah Khusraw Mirza's travel to Tabriz, asking her to write him about the state of the household, the yard, the...
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