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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 and list of expenses
In this letter, the writer gives an interpretation of a Rumi's poem. On verso there is a document listing some personal expenses: "From the five tumans [that I had] I have paid: two thousand dinars to Abu al-Qasim Bayk, three thousand dinars for Arabian shoes, five hundred dinars for a shirt, five hundred dinars for socks, and two thousand and five hundred dinars for public bath."