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Correspondence of Tajmah Khanum
Correspondence of Tajmah Khanum, daughter of I‘tizad al-Saltanah, including a letter from her father discussing the use of mineral water and his return to Tehran in the near future, July [27?], 1880; a letter to Nasir al-Din Shah regarding a property in Khani Abad; guest lists and letters to her husband ‘Izz al-Dawlah Salur regarding the weddings of their daughters.
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Group portrait
In Nasir al-Din Shah's handwriting [from left, women]: "Layla Khanum, Furugh al-Dawlah, and Fakhr al-Dawlah"; the boy is ‘Aziz al-Sultan
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Khayrat-i hisan
Khayrat-i hisan, 3 volumes, Tehran: no publisher, 1887, 1888, and 1889. Compiled by by Muhammad Hasan Khan Iʿtimad al-Saltanah, a biographical dictionary of famous women of Islam, provides information on some forty learned women from courtly circles in Qajar period.
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Letter from Mahd-i ‘Ulya to Nasir al-Din Shah, 1863
Includes greetings and talks about her well-being, Niyavaran's weather, seeing Tuman Aqa and Turan Aqa, sending the turbat via Mulk Ara, and asks Nasir al-Din Shah to respond to the petition of the daughters of the Mashhad Friday Prayer Imam regarding the hardship they have endured after Mirza ‘Askari's death
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Letter from Nasir al-Din Shah to Amin al-Sultan, 1885
About Majd al-Dawlah's unemployment and Fakhr al-Dawlah's concern and the decision to give him a position in court; he asks Amin al-Sultan to inform ‘Azud al-Mulk that he is satisfied with his service and that his decision is merely because of Fakhr al-Dawlah.
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Regarding Fakhr al-Dawlah's funeral
Letter to ‘Azud al-Mulk, requesting a group of Qajar men to accompany the corpse for the burial at Hazrat-i Ma‘sumah mausoleum
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Travel journal
ʻAlaviyah Khanum Kirmani's travel journal. ʻAlaviyah Khanum, ʻAli Khan and a few others went on Hajj and made pilgrimages to the shrines in Iraq. On the way back to Iran, she visited a number of cities including Tehran and the Nasiri Court. This travel journal was written by ʻAlaviyah Khanum Kirmani. On the first page of the book (this page was written by ʻAli Khan at the request of ʻAlaviyah Khanum), ʻAlaviyah Khanum noted that she wrote this book because she missed her husband and also to record these events in history. The author's actual name is not known and "ʻAlaviyah Khanum Kirmani"...
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