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Telegram from peasants of Asadabad to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1917
About their hardships caused by the water shortages. They ask the addressee to build a qanat for them.
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Fakhir al-Saltanah's settlements confirmed by his wife, Khanum ‘Aliyah
These documents include: 1-Haji Mirza Sayyid ‘Ali leases his agricultural land to Aqa Mashhadi Nasir, the son of the late Karbalayi Isma‘il, for eight hundred and seventy tumans. The contract covers three winter and three summer crops (over three years). On the back, Fakhir al-Saltanah settles some agricultural property and water rights with Haji Mirza Sayyid Muhammad Muhazzab al-Dawlah for four thousand tumans. Khanum ‘Aliyah, Fakhir al-Saltanah's wife, and her mother, Tal‘at al-Dawlah, have confirmed this settlement, dated July 23, 1905. 2-Mirza Muhammad Riza Khan Fakhir al-Saltanah, the...
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Two settlements, 1914
Above: Draft of a settlement over a house in ‘Uliya-i Mayman for one tuman and two thousand dinars and some wheat, between Mirza Kuchak Tajir [merchant] known as Maymandi, son of the late Mirza Abu Turab from Shiraz, and others: one-sixth with Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, one-sixth with Sayyid ‘Azim Aqa, one-sixth with Sayyid Masha’ Allah, one-sixth with Khanum Agha and Aqa Sayyid ‘Izzat, one-sixth with Mirza Muhammad Hasan, and one-sixth with Mirza Muhammad Riza; Below: Draft of settlement of Mirza Kuchak Tajir [merchant] known as Maymandi, son of the late Mirza Abu Turab from Shiraz, over a...