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Badr al-Muluk and Amin al-Sultan's Love Letters
The love letters of Badr al-Muluk and Amin al-Sultan, including: a letter from Badr al-Muluk to [Amin al-Sultan?], in which she is complaining about the hostility of certain people who the recipient knows, and the journey of ‘Isa Mirza (her brother) from the salt mine to her house and his stay until the third of the month, after which she is going to visit the reader; an envelope with an inscribed stamp or sticker of Badr al-Muluk; a letter by Badr al-Muluk, in which after a nostalgic note, she asks the reader to deliver his future letters to Sanam Baji at Badr al-Muluk's house through that...
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‘Abd al-Husayn Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk to Surur al-Saltanah
‘Abd al-Husayn Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk (Taymurtash) writes to Surur al-Saltanah declaring his love and asking why she is upset and whether he has done something wrong; he tells her that other people do not know how much he loves her and she should not listen to what they say; if she is concerned about the photograph, he declares that Surur has all his heart and if there are some memorabilia from the past, they were only reminders of the madness of his younger self and tells her that she can keep the photograph. Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk, then, describes his meeting with Fakham al-Saltanah and how Fakham...
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Part of a letter
The writer shares some news about the purchase of a slave (Khvajah) for the crown prince from Somalia for two thousand tumans and mentions that Aqa brought four Kaniz (female slaves) for Khalah Jan, Mahmud Khan, Mademoiselle, and the writer. Three of them are Baluchis and one is Bambasi. Aqa also brought a male slave as a souvenir for the writer; his name is Qanbar. S/he then describes three things that s/he wanted during the three years that Aqa was governing the ports and has them all now: a good gun, a mare called ‘Abid, and now Qanbar. S/he then describes the mares and the horses that...
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Letters from Asiyah Khanum
Letters from Asiyah Khanum (daughter of Rukhsarah Khanum and Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam) to her father; her sister, ʻAziz al-Muluk; her stepmother, Sakinah Khanum; and to Munshi Bashi.
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Kulliyat of Tajmah Khanum
Tajmah Khanum wrote this book, composed of three parts. The first part consists of nearly 120 verses. The first poem is a sonnet written by the poet when she was 16 and the last one was written to praise Riza Shah. The second part is more than 20 letters and notes, which are mostly administrative and legal. Other letters were addressed to women who where contemporaries of Tajmah Khanum. The third part of this book is a selection of poems by Persian poets from Rudaki to the Qajar period.
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Miscellaneous letters addressed to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam
Miscellaneous letters addressed to Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam concerning family and financial matters.
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Surur al-Saltanah and Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk love letters, 1909 to 1910
Love letters of ‘Abd al-Husayn Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk (Taymurtash), son of Karim Dad Khan, to Surur al-Saltanah, daughter of Zarrin Kulah Khanum and Khazin al-Mulk, accompanied by some envelopes and part of a letter, probably from Surur al-Saltanah to Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk. These letters were most likely written during the time between their ‘Aqd (formal contract of marriage) and ‘Arusi (marriage celebration and consummation), while Surur al-Saltanah was living in Tehran and Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk was traveling between Tehran and Khurasan; the letters have also been separately included in this collection;...
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- ‘Abd al-Husayn Taymurtash (Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk)(2)
- Sughra Sultan Khanum Surur al-Saltanah(2)
- Sakinah Khanum (daughter of ʻAbbas Khan Tunikabuni)(2)
- Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islami (Raʼis al-Mujahidin)(2)
- Asiyah Khanum (Sheikholeslami Collection)(2)
- ‘Iffat al-Muluk Taymurtash(1)
- ‘Ali Asghar Khan Atabak (Amin al-Sultan)(1)
- Zivar Khanum Sarimi(1)
- Zahra Sultan ʻIzzat al-Saltanah(1)
- Tajmah (Afaq al-Dawlah)(1)
- Taj al-Saltanah(1)
- Sultan Baygum(1)
- Sattar Khan Qarahdaghi (Sardar-i Milli)(1)
- Rukhsarah Khanum(1)
- Rubabah Khanum (Sheikholeslami Collection)(1)
- Rafʻat al-Saltanah Mulkara(1)
- Rafʻat al-Muluk(1)
- Nayyir Qudsiyah (daughter of Muhammad Rahim Khan Khazin al-Mulk)(1)
- Nayyir Khanum(1)
- Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar(1)
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- ‘Abd al-Husayn Taymurtash (Mu‘azzaz al-Mulk)(2)
- Sughra Sultan Khanum Surur al-Saltanah(2)
- Sakinah Khanum (daughter of ʻAbbas Khan Tunikabuni)(2)
- Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islami (Raʼis al-Mujahidin)(2)
- Asiyah Khanum (Sheikholeslami Collection)(2)
- ‘Iffat al-Muluk Taymurtash(1)
- ‘Ali Asghar Khan Atabak (Amin al-Sultan)(1)
- Zivar Khanum Sarimi(1)
- Zahra Sultan ʻIzzat al-Saltanah(1)
- Tajmah (Afaq al-Dawlah)(1)
- Taj al-Saltanah(1)
- Sultan Baygum(1)
- Sattar Khan Qarahdaghi (Sardar-i Milli)(1)
- Rukhsarah Khanum(1)
- Rubabah Khanum (Sheikholeslami Collection)(1)
- Rafʻat al-Saltanah Mulkara(1)
- Rafʻat al-Muluk(1)
- Nayyir Qudsiyah (daughter of Muhammad Rahim Khan Khazin al-Mulk)(1)
- Nayyir Khanum(1)
- Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar(1)
- Munshi Bashi(1)
- Mulk Ara (Sheikholeslami Collection)(1)
- Muhammad Vali Khan Tunikabuni(1)
- Mirza Yahya Khan Mu‘tamad al-Mulk (Mushir al-Dawlah)(1)
- Mirza Ismaʻil Khan Shaykh al-Islam (Sayf al-Islam)(1)
- Mirza Hasan Khan (Buzurg) Hakimbashi(1)
- Mir Sayyid Hasan Amin al-Shariʻah Sabzivari(1)
- Mihr Afruz Khanum Shams al-Saltanah(1)
- Mahmud Nizam Mafi(1)
- Khayr al-Nisaʼ (Sheikholeslami Collection)(1)
- Khanum Jan (Sheikholeslami Collection)(1)
- Karbalaʼi Musa(1)
- Jahan Ara Hajiyah Khanum(1)
- Hidayat Allah Hakim Bashi(1)
- Haji Husayn Khan(1)
- Haj Mirza Abu Turab Shaykh al-Islam(1)
- Ghulam Hasan(1)
- Fath Allah Khan Arfaʻ al-Saltanah(1)
- Fakhr al-Vaʻizin Kashani(1)
- Balqays Khanum Mu‘izzi(1)
- Balajah Khanum(1)
- Badr al-Muluk (Dabiri Collection)(1)
- Ashraf al-Sadat(1)
- Aqa Ahmad(1)
- Afsanah Khanum(1)