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Mirza ‘Isa Khan and Khanum's list of expenses
List of expenses, including prices for cigarettes, sugar cubes, soaps, fabric, clothing, and shoes
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Letter to Bibi Sahib
About purchasing hay for donkeys, fabric, jewelry, shoes, water pipe base, etc.
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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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Letter
Letter of greeting addressed to my dear Khanum
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Marriage and divorce contracts of Baygum Khanum and Murad ‘Ali, 1891
Marriage and divorce contracts of Baygum Khanum, daughter of the late Aqa Taqi, and Murad ‘Ali, son of the late Kazim. The mahr includes one tuman and five thousand dinars, one-and-a-half misqals of golden jewelery, copperware, European chintz clothes, a set of bedding made in Qumshah, kilim and a felt rug, and one-sixth of the groom's residential building located in the Ustad Qasim the Carpenter neighborhood of Asfarjan village. On April 26, 1894, the wife settled her mahr and alimony with her husband for two tumans, a donkey, two mans [unit of weight] of flour, a pair of shoes, four zar‘...
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Marriage contract, settlement, and divorce agreement between Saltanat Khanum and Shahzadah ‘Abbas Mirza, 1910 and 1911
Marriage contract of Saltanat Khanum (known as Mukhbar al-Saltanah), daughter of Davud Mirza, and Shahzadah [prince] ‘Abbas Mirza, son of Haj Muhammad Mahdi Mirza, on March 15, 1910; the mahr includes a Qurʼan worth twenty-five tumans, one-twelfth of [illegible] ‘Abbas Abad village, five hundred tumans, a female Abyssinian slave worth one hundred and fifty tumans, and five mans [unit of weight] of silk. On April 1, 1910, Shahzadah ‘Abbas Mirza divorced Saltanat Khanum, and since the marriage was not consummated, her mahr was cut in half. Saltanat Khanum settled half of her original mahr,...
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- Ibrahim Khan Sa‘d al-Dawlah(2)
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- Sulayman Khan Bihjat al-Dawlah(1)
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- Fatimah Khanum ʻIzzat al-Dawlah (daughter of Muzaffar al-Din Shah)(1)
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- Abu al-Qasim Nasir al-Mulk (Nayib al-Saltanah)(1)