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Letter about souvenirs
Most likely from a sister to her brother
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Letters from Shams al-Dawlah
Three letters from Shams al-Dawlah [wife of Nasir al-Din Shah] including two letters to ‘Azud al-Mulk and a letter of complaint to an unidentified person regarding the arrest of her brother, ‘Ayn al-Dawlah [‘Abd al-Majid Mirza]. The first letter is about the decree for ‘Ayn al-Dawlah in which she complains about ‘Azud al-Mulk's delay in sealing the decree and asks him to speed up the process and otherwise, to send it back with the messenger Mirza Ahmad Khan. She has included fifty five-thousand bills for the taxation costs in the envelope. The second letter to ‘Azud al-Mulk is about the...
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Group portrait
In Nasir al-Din Shah's handwriting [from left, women]: "Layla Khanum, Furugh al-Dawlah, and Fakhr al-Dawlah"; the boy is ‘Aziz al-Sultan
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ʻIsmat al-Dawlah and her family
The person seated at the edge of the garden (at front) is Fatimah Khanum ‘Ismat al-Dawlah; Fakhr al-Taj is standing next to her; the man standing on the left holding a baby is Dust Muhammad Khan; the man standing leaning onto the green-house is Dust ‘Ali Khan; ‘Ismat al-Mulk is seated beside him; the man standing far in the back is Jahangir Mirza Jahanbani,‘Ismat al-Dawlah's uncle. The woman standing on the right is unidentified.