Saʻid al-Sultan

This collection consists of family letters, marriage contracts, letters of recommendation, reports, petitions, and property sale settlements.

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Collection Highlights

Family correspondence of Saʻid al-Sultan

Two sale settlements

Petitions submitted to Saʻid al-Sultan

Three reports to Saʻid al-Sultan

Three financial documents

Clothing measurements for sewing

Collection Details

Dates 18th to 20th century
Date Acquired 11/20/2012
Last Edited 29 September 2013
Record Number 1277

Genres legal & financial sales & settlements correspondence marriage contracts petitions writings
Subjects debts and loans gardens money property and property management villages financial matters grains rent remuneration siblings power of attorney Armenians Ministry of Justice letter writing tribes divorce mahr marriage politics and government peasants taxes servants crime weapons Constitutional Revolution marriage proposal gendarmerie travel clothing sewing animals cooking courtiers courts death food illness feasts petitions promissory notes telegraph testimony childbirth gifts husband and wife jewels and jewelry schools agriculture armies construction kitchenware medicine police quarreling inheritance water and irrigation carpets education humor and satire parties weather

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