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Telegram from Zinat al-Saltanah to Mirza ʻAbd Allah Khan, 1919 or 1920
Zinat al-Saltanah asks Aqa Mirza ʻAbd Allah Khan to deliver a telegram to Shahzadah Haydar Mirza. After greeting and recommending Mirza ʻAbd Allah Khan to Shahzadah Haydar Mirza, she asks him about why she cannot own the endowment properties, contrary to the explicit verdict, and not receiving Haj Mahdi's debts for his rent. At the end of the letter, she mentions the arrival of three packages of medicine and not getting the silver she asked for Musaʻid al-Mulk's wife.
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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
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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;...