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Marriage contract of Ma‘sumah Khanum and Qadam‘ali, 1927
Marriage contract of Ma‘sumah Khanum, the daughter of Aqa Muhammad ‘Ali, and Qadam‘ali, the son of Aqa ‘Ali. The mahr is eighty nine tumans. The groom settled the following, which his father had settled to him earlier, to the bride: one-sixth of a house, some shares of water (worth 20 tumans), a set of bedding (10 tumans), rugs (15 tumans), copperwares (5 tumans), and a cow (five tumans). These amount to seventy seven tumans from the mahr in total, and the remaining twelve tumans remains the groom's debt.
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Marriage contract between Bibi Layla and Muhammad Husayn, 1927
Marriage contract between Bibi Layla, the daughter of Karbalayi Sayyid ʻAbbas (son of Karbalayi Sayyid Maʻsum from Birjand), and Muhammad Husayn, son of Mulla Zayn al-ʻAbidin, on January 24, 1927. The mahr, which is 84 tumans and will remain the bridegroom's debt, includes: two shares of half of a day's use of the water from the qanat of Hasanabad farm for 32 tumans, half of a house in Arviz village for 6 tumans, kilims and felt for carpeting one room for four tumans, four women's dresses to buy and to make for five tumans, ten mans [each man equals three kilograms] of copper for six...
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Letter from Muhammad ‘Amiri to his wife, Azarmidukht, 1956
Includes greetings and talks about the water scarcity in Rigan causing the wheat and barley farms to dry out and the farmers' despair, discusses trying to bring water to ‘Abbas Abad with one hundred workers, his own work and travel plans as well as the family's departure to Abariq, how to bring household furnishings, sending lambs to Kirman for sale, the money his brother owes him, sending Nawruz postcards, a storm and flood in Rigan, advice on the safety of the house, and sending a list of items needed for Abariq; along with the envelope
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