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Letter from Hajib Khanum
Letter from Hajib Khanum. It reads in part: "My dearest, I have received the letter you sent me, which made my day. I will write about selling the household furniture and the carpet to A[qa] Husayn and will explain it in detail. I have said again and again that I prefer you to everyone else, and if you give that five tumans or I give it to you it's still ours. But I insist that you take more or less 10 tumans from the price of furniture in order to stop rumors. You wrote that the twenty five tumans is ready. It will be twenty five tumans because we need to pay deposit for a house in order...
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Letter requesting confirmation of Mirza ʻAli Khan Mustawfi Bashi's transfer of his properties to his wife, 1896
Letter requesting confirmation of Mirza ʻAli Khan Mustawfi Bashi's transfer of all his belongings and properties to his wife before he had passed away. The writer emphasizes that Mirza ʻAli Khan had included all buildings, animals, and household furnishings in this tranfer; that the rest of his inheritors have no claim on these properties; any such claim on their part is not valid. It requests that the addressee confirm the truth of this statement in case there is need for it; dated September 1896.
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Divorce settlement between Nush Afarin Khanum and Aqa Hasan Shari‘atmadar, 1881
Divorce settlement between Nush Afarin Khanum (daughter of the late Sadiq Khan) with her husband Aqa Hasan Shari‘atmadar (the local religious notable); the setllement covers Nushafarin Khanum's mahr and alimony and her other rights. All of the clothes and other belongings, worth 75 tumans, were received and and repossessed. Because of the mutually agreed divorce, her husband gave Mirza Asad Allah power of attorney to execute the divorce based on the divorce contract. Nush Afarin Khanum delegated to Aqa the right to divorce her and gave away her right of alimony. Nush Afarin Khanum and her...