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Prescription for a pregnant woman
Instructions for how to use the prescribed remedy for a pregnant woman who wants a boy. It is written on letterhead bearing the stamp of the Alman drugstore, Tabriz, Azarbayjan.
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Letter, 1905
On behalf of Khanumjan, the writer writes about her illness, which is the reason for not writing letters, noting that still has not recovered and is still seeing Hakim Buqrat to cure her. The writer also sends greetings on behalf of Khanumjan, Hajiyah Khanum, Nur al-Hajiyah, and Mir Muhammad Riza.
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Letter
About Shafi‘ Aqa's recovery; rain after the hot weather; clarifying that the people of the andarun had requested roots of Baba Adam [Burdock] and not Badam [almond] and asking the addressee to write to Mirza Ahmad in Tehran and let him know; the well-being of Mir Muhammad Riza, Aqa Isma‘il Aqa, Nur al-Hajiyah, and others.
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Marriage contract of Fatimah Sultan Khanum and Mirza ‘Ali Asghar, 1898
Marriage contract of Fatimah Sultan Khanum, the daughter of Aqa Sayyid ‘Ali the apothecary, and Aqa Mirza ‘Ali Asghar, the son of Haji Mirza Mahmud the merchant from Isfahan. The mahr is one hundred and ten tumans. According to a note on the margin, Fatimah Sultan Khanum is the granddaughter of Aqa Sayyid Ahmad Fakhr al-Hukama’, the personal physician of Muzaffar al-Din Shah.
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Letter
Concerning Ziba Khanum and reassurance that the writer does not prefer her offspring to Ziba Khanum, as they are both her children; promising to protect Ziba Khanum from harrassment and requesting that the addressee send her to come to live with her mother; and saying that Ziba Khanum could recover from her illness by having access to a good doctor, nice weather, and motherly care.
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Letter, 1904
The writer [probably female] sends greetings on behalf of Hajiyah Khanum (grandmother), Khanumjan (her mother), and Nur al-Hajiyah; expresses her sadness at the addressee being away in Tehran; mentions Hajiyah Khanum's illness and the doctor's visit; and inquires about the well-being of Muhammad Taqi.
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Health benefits of ledris
Translation of a text about health benefits of ledris (ephedra)
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Letter
The writer [probably female] sends greetings on behalf of Aqa Sayyid Ibrahim; mentions Aqa Isma‘il Aqa's stomach pain and planning to call for a doctor; claims that the female servants have become unruly, want husbands, and, in the abscence of the addressee, wear their chador and leave the house; notes that they could have married them off to the male servants, had they not been dismissed; reports that they have sent Ahmad, who has grown up, to live outside the house, but he has now befriended Kulsum, and, according to a rumor, is planing to rent a house and take Kulsum with him; because of...
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List of the belongings of the late Dr. Taqi Khan
Including clothing, household furnishings, kitchenware, bedding, bath accessories, gold, his medical supplies, medicines, and medical books.
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Hamid al-Sultan to ‘Amid Lashkar
Hamid al-Sultan, probably to ‘Amid Lashkar, writing this letter after his mid-day nap, talks about the brigadier sending Bayram Kadkhuda [the village chief] to work on the financial accounts and other news, including Muqtadir Nizam's sheep; not receiving one month's salary; the children's medicine; ‘Ali Muhammad delivering seventeen tumans from Varaqah to the addressee's mother; expressing happiness with the choice of Sattar as the head of ‘Amidiyah kitchen and the decent food; discusses Haji Mirza ‘Ali Aqa's interest in purchasing the villages of Varaqah and Zaviyah; reports the...