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Marriage contract of Taj Baygum and Ustad Abu al-Fath, 1909
Marriage contract of Taj Baygum, the daughter of Husayn‘ali, and Ustad Abu al-Fath, the son of Ustad Ujaq Quli from Dabuzarq. The mahr is fourteen tumans, of which a set of bedding and a samovar, worth six tumans, has been paid. The remaining eight tumans remain the groom's debt. A note on the margin reads, "Every year the husband should provide a certain amount of flour and cooked meat as well as clothing for the wife."
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Letter
About: receiving Aqa Sadiq's letter and gratitude for the eight bottles of rose water and pussy willow water; Habib Allah Khan, who has not yet responded; Sarkar ‘Illiyah will deliver the letters of Aqa-yi Muntasir and Haji Isma‘il ‘Arab; not receiving the ten mans [unit of weight] of butter that Sawlat al-Saltanah sent and asks the addressee to follow up and see if the peasants have cheated; the marriage ceremony of Haji Abu al-Fath Khan's daughter; work-related issues, salaries, and other family news.
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Prayer
For attracting other people's affection and to marry them
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Hamid al-Sultan to ‘Amid Lashkar, 1925
Letter and envelope with Hamid's seal, addressed to ‘Amid Lashkar the secretary of the army brigade; about: receiving the 26-tuman promissory note via Haji Muhammad Taqi the merchant from Dilmaqan and delivering it to ‘Amid Lashkar's mother to pay off his debts; Habib Allah Sultan's nausea and dizziness due to breathing the gas from the kursi charcoal; baking homemade bread from flour and Sultan's order to bring wheat from the village; other issues regarding letters, Muqtadir's assignments, etc.; ‘Ali Asghar Khan's suggestion for ‘Amid Lashkar's marriage noted in Mirza Muhammad Khan's...
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Letter
About receiving the envelopes addressed to Aqa-yi Muqtadir and Muntasir; in response to the addressee's request for a list of household expenses, the writer states that there is no such account, as no one has recorded the expenses and that the small debts have been paid off, except for that of Haji Isma‘il, which will be paid soon; points out the difference between their account and that of Haji Mir Muhammad and blames the addressee for the ambiguity; discusses paying two of the household's fifteen tumans to Fatimah Khanum; reassures the addressee that bread will be provided to the...
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Letter from Hamid al-Sultan, 1914
Envelope from Hamid al-Sultan sent from Urumiyah via Mashhadi Husayn Aqa to Hamid al-Sultan's house at Shahzadah's residence in Tabriz, dated August 26, 1914; the letter, dated August 25, probably to his wife, mentions: that he would let them know and send the cost of travel himself if he wanted them to come to Urumiyah; Dabir al-Sultan's departure toward Tabriz; a complaint that she does not write regularly; her request for a gold upper-arm bracelet for her sister, saying that he is sending eight tumans so she can give them to Sarkar ‘Illiyah to purchase one in Tabriz, as they have better...
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Ballad
Three pages of tasnifs (ballads) with satirical content
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Questions and answers
Questions for Sayyid Muhammad Yazdi Firuzabadi in Najaf, sent from Rasht, about prayer and ablution after intercourse; power of attorney to perform divorce, marriage, and other legal contracts; ownership of dowries after the passing of either the parents or the daughter; responsibility for costs of food, medicine, and a doctor for a woman who is living in her parents' house