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                <p>About sending some documents, not receiving Baba Khan’s promissory notes from last year, concern about the expenses for his and ‘Amid Lashkar’s households, sending a thirty-tuman draft via Haji Isma‘il; says that from the letters of both ‘Amid Lashkar and his child [probably ‘Amid Lashkar’s wife and Muntasir Lashkar’s daughter, Ma‘sumah Sultan], Muntasir Lashkar understands that there is some quarreling in their house. He is concerned about his daughter and asks ‘Amid Lashkar’s mother to look after her and be patient with her. He also asks ‘Amid Lashkar to pay two tumans to his sister Fatimah Khanum and sends greetings to her and her children.</p>

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