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Marriage contract of ʻIzzat al-Saltanah and ʻAbbas Mirza, April or May 1911
Marriage contract between Zahra Khanum (ʻIzzat al-Saltanah), daughter of Nizam al-Saltanah, and ʻAbbas Mirza, son of ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma. The sidaq (mahr) is ten thousand tumans - 1,500 tumans in cash, three shares in the village of Dalaki near Shiraz, valued at 8,500 tumans, and a handwritten Qur’an.
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Sayyid Yahya Adib al-Shu‘ara’ to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1890
Haji Sayyid Yahya Adib al-Shu‘ara’ (from Tabriz)'s petition discusses the pension of Mulla Yahya and ʻAbd Allah Bayg, the hardships the author went through during his pilgrimage to Mecca, and the delay in paying one-third of Mulla Yahya's belongings to his inheritors. This delay was caused by the heir of Haji Muhammad Baqir who is the Kadkhuda (village chief) of a village, which is owned by Surur al-Saltanah. His appointees sabotaged the payment despite the efforts of Mustashar al-Sultan. At the end, the author refers to the necessity of paying the one-third and asks the addressee to...