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Mirza Mufid Shaykh al-Islam to Mirza Buzurg Shaykh al-Islam
From Tehran, Mirza Mufid Shaykh al-Islam writes to his oldest son, Mirza Buzurg Shaykh al-Islam, in Mahmud Abad.
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Request for purchase of a water pipe tobacco bowl, 1881
The writer is asking Shahzadah Banu to purchase a qalyun tobacco bowl before her departure.
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Letter about a journey
The writer talks about the arrival of the Premier and sends her/his regards to the recipient via the Iranian ambassador in France. The writer describes her/his journey from Tehran, her/his stops in Hamadan and Kirmanshah due to illness, and his/her arrival in Baghdad. The writer describes her/his visit with the reader's son, Ahmad Khan the Colonel, in Kirmanshah and how he had expressed disappointment over the delay in receiving his father's letter. The writer suggests that such letters be delivered through the Iranian representatives in Baghdad. The author has also met Shahzadah Khanum....
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Khadijah Sultan Baygum's note
Note from Khadijah Sultan Baygum about Ruqiyah Sultan Baygum's debt from Mirza Abu Talib [‘Adil Isfahani], mentioning the rental money from January 2nd, 1862; on the reverse, the writer has written about the debt of Safar, a peasant from Hasan Abad, who is going on a journey to Baraz on Tuesday December 17th, 1861 for ten days and should receive one thousand dinars for each day.
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Vaqayiʻ al-ayyam
This is a travelogue of Shaykh al-Islam Mansur Qazvini in which he gives accounts of the lives of people. In the beginning it is indicated that the manuscript is in his own hand writing, but at the end it is mentioned that the scribe of this volume, which was finished in 1893, was Mirza ʻAli Akbar, the son of Karbalayi Ghulamʻali.
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Hajj travelogue, February or March 1882
According to Dr. Rasul Ja‘farian, publisher of the travelogue, the author is Hajiyah Mihr Mah Khanum ‘Ismat al-Saltanah (d. 3 August 1888), daughter of Farhad Mirza Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah and Jahan Ara Khanum. Jahan Ara is the daughter of Muhammad ‘Ali Mirza Dawlatshahi, son of Fath ‘Ali Shah. Hajiyah Mihr Mah Khanum ‘Ismat al-Saltanah married three times: first to Mirza Muhammad Qavam al-Dawlah Ashtiyani (d. 1873); then to Mirza Musa (d. 1881), son of Mirza Hadi Ashtiyani Vazir Lashgar; then to Mirza ʻAbd Allah Vahab Khan Asif al-Dawlah (d. 1887). Hajiyah Mihr Mah Khanum ‘Ismat al-Saltanah...
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Muhammad to ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1894
The author writes about ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza’s distress caused by so much travel and suggests that to avoid more expenses and exhaustion, he should excuse himself and cancel his trip to Tehran.
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Letter from Mahd-i ‘Ulya to Nasir al-Din Shah, 1872 or 1873
Includes greetings and talks about her pilgrimage to Hazrat-i ‘Abd al-‘Azim and her prayers
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Letter to Nasir al-Din Shah, 1867
Probably from one of Nasir al-Din Shah's wives, on how she misses the addressee after his departure to Khurasan and not receiving any letters from him
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Letter from Mahd-i ‘Ulya to Nasir al-Din Shah, 1863
She expresses her happiness upon receiving Nasir al-Din Shah's letter and the news of his upcoming visit after a period of hunting and informs him that the weather is getting nicer.
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