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Zahra Sultan ‘Izzat al-Saltanah to Ma‘sumah Nizam Mafi
Zahra Sultan Nizam Mafi (‘Izzat al-Saltanah) writes to her sister, Ma‘sumah Nizam Mafi, asking her to send a photograph of Manizhah and promising to send a photograph of ‘Izzi. ‘Izzat al-Saltanah also advises her sister to send some of her servants to learn to make some dishes and desserts from the new, skilled chef hired by the Hazrat-i Ashraf household. She mentions that she, herself, is learning some recipes from the cooks in addition to the dessert recipes she learned in Hamadan. She finds this particularly helpful in Tehran, as the kitchen would be in the andarun and she does not...
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Muhammad ‘Ali Nizam Mafi (Salar Mu‘azzam) to Riza Quli Khan Nizam Mafi (Nizam al-Saltanah), 1907
Muhammad ‘Ali Nizam Mafi (Salar Mu‘azzam) writes to his father, Riza Quli Khan Nizam Mafi (Nizam al-Saltanah and reports the death of Muzaffar al-Din Shah four days earlier (there were two days of morning ceremonies and the cornoation occurred on the day this letter was written), saying that his corpse is at Takiyah Dawlat and despite his own wish to be buried in Karbala’, clerics disagree. In other news, he describes how a German citizen and his wife were robbed and [sexually] assaulted in Kahrizak and that the members of the Shah's cavalry responsible for this have been arrested and are...
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