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Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah to Khadijah Sultan
Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah writes to her mother, Khadijah Sultan Khanum, in Tehran, from Hamadan, and tells her that she is still waiting for her boxes from Tehran, that she does not have enough appropriate clothing to wear and that this is embarrassing when she has visitors, especially European guests. She asks her mother to buy new fashionable clothing for her and gives her a list of items she needs, including a pair of shoes, a black chador, some textiles from which to tailor a dress to wear in front of her European guests on Nawruz, some other textiles for her chaqchur [a kind of...
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Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah to Khadijah Sultan
Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah writes to her mother, Khadijah Sultan Khanum and expresses her concern about not receiving letters from her; talks about the moderate winter weather in Hamadan, the nice people there, and her new social life; she describes how women dress in Hamadan, that the old fashions in Tehran are now becoming fashionable in Hamadan: women wear chaqchur [a kind of leggings] when leaving the house as there is no carriage road in the city and people either walk or ride a donkey. She discusses the way they make jams and sweets and mentions that the prices of some goods are...
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Letters to Saʻid al-Sultan
Letters to Saʻid al-Sultan: from Muhammad Sadiq, about the destruction wrought by the gendarmerie; from Aflatun Adibi Kurdistani, apologizing for the delay in correspondence and asking for money from the Gumah valley transaction; from [Muhammad?], son of Haji Qavam, sending Nawruz greetings and a bonus, conveying his appreciation of Saʻid al-Sultan's visiting his family, and sending greetings from himself and his wife, ʻAliyah Khanum, to [Bihjat Khanum]; from [Muhammad?], son of Haji Qavam, complaining about Saʻid al-Sultan's delay in replying to two of Muhammad's previous letters in the...
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- Zahra Sultan ʻIzzat al-Saltanah(2)
- Khadijah Sultan (wife of Riza Quli Khan Nizam Mafi)(2)
- ‘Aliyah Khanum (Bihjat Khanum)(1)
- Zarrin Taj Khanum (Saʻid al-Sultan Collection)(1)
- Tabandah Khanum (Saʻid al-Sultan Collection)(1)
- Sadiqah Khanum (Saʻid al-Sultan Collection)(1)
- Muhammad Vali Mirza Farmanfarma’ian(1)
- Muhammad Ja‘far Asif Vaziri(1)
- Mirza ‘Ali Naqi Khan Asif A‘zam(1)
- Mah Talʻat Khanum (Saʻid al-Sultan Collection)(1)
- Huma Khanum (Saʻid al-Sultan Collection)(1)
- Huma Farmanfarma'iyan(1)
- Fatimah Khanum ʻIzzat al-Dawlah (daughter of Muzaffar al-Din Shah)(1)
- Abu al-Qasim Nasir al-Mulk (Nayib al-Saltanah)(1)
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