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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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Marriage contract of Khanum and ‘Ali Khan Sahibjam‘, 1931
Marriage contract of Khanum, daughter of Sayyid Mahmud Khan Mu‘tasam al-Dawlah, and ‘Ali Khan Sahibjam‘, son of Khan Baba Khan Sahibjam‘; the mahr is two thousand and five hundred tumans as well as a copy of the Qur’an, two rings, and a cashmere shawl. Five hundred tumans and the items were given to the bride and the rest remains the groom’s debt.
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Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah to Muhammad ‘Ali Nizam Mafi (Salar Mu‘azzam)
Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah writes to her brother, Muhammad ‘Ali Nizam Mafi (Salar Mu‘azzam), telling him that they received the postcard he had sent for Mirza Mahmud Khan, that Khanum [their mother, Khadijah Sultan] is heavy-hearted and ‘Izzat al-Saltanah reads books for her at night, that Taqi Khan has left for Switzerland along with Saham Nizam, that Mahmud Khan and Jalal Nizam saw him off, but when they returned, Mahmud Khan cried for Taqi Khan and would not be calmed until they had given him the dominos that Salar Mu‘azzam had left them, and that once in a while, Ma‘sumah Khanum...
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Marriage agreement of Baygum Agha and Sayyid Muhammad Taqi, 1939
Marriage agreement of Baygum Agha, daughter of Sayyid Karim son of Sayyid Habib Allah from Khuzan, and Sayyid Muhammad Taqi, son of Sayyid Hashim Furushani. The mahr includes one-twelfth of a house in Furushan village, and ninety tumans, of which twenty-six tumans and two-and-one-half riyals remain the groom's debt. The rest should be spent on gold, cotton wool, chintz, trays, and rugs. The groom's father transferred ownership of one-twelfth of the house to his son.
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‘Azra's letter for confirming her marriage and mahr, 1935
Letter written by ‘Azra, daughter of Haj Mirza Husayn Sharif, to Mirza Sayyid Ahmad Pish-namaz [the prayer leader] requesting him to confirm her marriage to the late Mirza Muhammad Riza with a mahr of three hundred tumans, ten misqals [unit of weight] of gold, a Qurʼan worth five tumans, and ten misqals of silk. He confirms her claims and points out that she had settled one hundred and fifty tumans of her mahr with the late Mirza Muhammad Riza.
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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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List of household items, 1935
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