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Marriage contract of Fatimah Baygum and ‘Abd al-Husayn, 1896
Marriage contract of Fatimah Baygum, daughter of Karbalayi Aqa, with Mashhadi Muhammad Taqi (son of Karbalayi ‘Abd al-Rahim (merchant)) as attorney, and ‘Abd al-Husayn, son of Karbalayi Mirza Muhammad, with his brother (‘Abd al-Hashim) as attorney. The mahr is eighty tumans as well as one tuman for a copy of a Qur’an.
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Letter from Muntasir Lashkar to ‘Amid Lashkar
Probably from Muntasir Lashkar; on the marriage of ‘Azimat Khanum, suggests that the mother should be entrusted to take care of related affairs, and to refer to God and the Qur’an for divination; asks to give the fifty tumans to Fatimah Khanum, but to advise her not to overspend; sends greetings to mother and sisters; inquires about the addressee and his tutor; complains about not receiving news about Ma‘sumah and Ruqiyah over the past year and is concerned if they are dead, urging them to tell him the truth.
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Booklet of documents
Documents related to women are the following: seq. 23: "I, Haj ʻAli Asghar Bayg, officer at the royal post service, have received all the jewelry of my deceased wife, Nabat Khanum, which was left with the wife of Haji Vakil al-Dawlah for safekeeping, plus three documents that were not listed. December 29, 1886"; seq. 27: a few years ago, the deceased Nabat Khanum from Tehran, the wife of the deceased ʻAli Asghar Bayg, officer at the royal post service, had left 1000 tumans with Haji Aqa Muhammad Hasan Vakil al-Dawlah, representative of the government of the United Kingdom, who claims on the...