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Regarding Fakhr al-Dawlah's funeral
Letter to ‘Azud al-Mulk, requesting a group of Qajar men to accompany the corpse for the burial at Hazrat-i Ma‘sumah mausoleum
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Letter
The writer, Mahmud (according to the seal on the back), complains that the addressee has not written to him since leaving for Tehran and wonders if it might be due to the cost of pen and ink, given the addressee's austerity; mentions that Shah Baji Khanum, Haji Khan ‘Amu's wife, and her son, Haydar Quli Khan, are traveling to Mashhad via Tehran, that Karbalayi Jalil and Mashhadi Ahmad Qarajah Qali are staying at the house of Mu’taman al-Sultan Aqa Riza Khan the colonel, son of Qasim Khan Sartip Qarah Baghi; and asks the addressee to bring Haydar Quli Khan to their house. He has enclosed...
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Letter
Letter of greeting addressed to my dear Khanum
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Letter about Surur al-Saltanah's trip
Includes the author's concern about the difficulties of Hazrat-i ʻUlya [Surur al-Saltanah]'s sea travel to ʻAtabat with her son, Nasir al-Din Mirza
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Telegram from ‘Izzat al-Saltanah to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1903
Discusses ‘Izzat al-Saltanah's visit to Muzaffar al-Din Shah and asks the addressee to send some flower bulbs
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Letter from Malakah to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1904
Malakah, daughter of the late Hishmat al-Dawlah (Amir Jang), asks the addressee to treat kindly the relatives of Haji Murad Khan, Naqi Khan, and Jahangir Khan, who currently serve in her home. Referring to the kindness and generosity of Naqi Khan and Jahangir Khan towards the writer on her way from Mecca during her stop at Kirmanshahan, she asks the recipient to treat them well for the work they did for her.
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Illustrated pilgrimage scroll
This scroll illustrates the Shi‘i pilgrimage from Mecca to Mashhad. The images are accompanied by verses describing different stages of the journey and the related rites. It was lithographed in six sections and glued to a fabric (probably cotton) backing. The scroll, which was commissioned by Muhammad Ja‘far Kasa’i, a cloth merchant from Karbalaʼ, was acquired in Kirman in ca. 1971 and is now in a private collection in Kailua, Hawaii.
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Letter from Mother
Written on behalf of the respected Validah [mother]; about Buyuk Khanum beginning to talk, providing money for pilgrimage to Mecca, and sending greetings to Haji Khanum and Zahra Sultan Khanum.
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Sale document between Qizil Arsalan Mirza and Sahib Khanum, 1901
Shahzadah Qizil Arsalan Mirza, son of Haji Kaykavus Mirza, sells a caravansary near Ma‘sumah shrine and the adjacent shops to Sahib Khanum, daughter of Aqa Karim and wife of Haji Muhammad Kazim, in exchange for fifty-eight tumans
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Greeting letter, addressed to the writer's sister, expressing sympathy about the hardship that she has been through and discussing a document related to a stipend (she instructs the addressee how to find it). She also has some news from Karbala’.
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