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          <h2>Letter about rent for a room in a caravansary, 1914</h2>
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                <p>Letter to Haji Muhammad Mahdi Sahib Tajir [the merchant] from Isfahan, asking him to pay the rent of a room, in a caravansary facing the former customs building, to Bibi Sahib Sultan, wife of the late Haji Nasr Allah Tajir. Also, the letter informs the receiver that since Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin has bought four-sixths of the room, from now on, the rent of four-sixths of the room should be paid in his order.</p>

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                <p>زحمت کشیده مال الاجاره ششدانگه یکباب اطاق کاروانسرای [ناخوانا] محاذی درب گمرک سابق ملکی بی بی صاحب سلطان زوجه مرحوم حاجی نصرالله تاجر را حسب الحواله آن مکرمه مرحمت بفرمائید بر حسب شرع مطاع چهار دانگ از اطاق مذکور ملک طلق و حق صدق آقا میرزا زین العابدین سهام الشریعه می‌باشد بموجب یک طغرا نوشته مبایعه نامچه شرعیه شرطیه ممهوره به مهر حجةالاسلام آقا سید جعفر مجتهد حق صدق ایشان می‌باشد و شرعا باید از تاریخ بیستم رجب ۱۳۳۲ ق مال الاجاره چهاردانگه اطاق را در وجه آقا میرزا زین العابدین کارسازی دارند. بیست و سوم رمضان ۱۳۳۲ ق
[حاشیه سند:] عیال مرحوم حاجی نصرالله خبر بدهید اگر مقرون به شرع مطاع صحت داشته باشد ۲۳ رمضان ۱۳۳۲ ق</p>

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