MOZAFFAR AD-DIN SHAH QAJAR: (1853-1907) Shah of Iran 1896-1907. L.S., in Persian, as Shah ...

MOZAFFAR AD-DIN SHAH QAJAR: (1853-1907) Shah of Iran 1896-1907. L.S., in Persian, as Shah, within a boteh motif, one page, 8vo, n.p., Dhu al-Hijjah 1317 (April/May 1900), to His Excellency the Prime Minister, in Persian. The manuscript text is written within a number of clouds set against a highly decorative gold and polychrome illuminated background featuring flowers and foliage and with a circular seal and crown at the head, and asks that Amir Bahadur-Jeng be summoned and provided with an additional five hundred tumans so that he can immediately compensate people for any damage done to their land, and that he is instructed ´to ensure that when the front of the procession moves, ten horsemen accompany it and strictly prohibit anyone from causing any harm to the crops and agriculture of the people´, adding that ten horsemen should also ride at the rear of the procession, and also explaining that ´anyone who sets up tents and unloads their belongings on the crops and lands of the people, their compensation should be immediately taken from the tent and luggage owners and given to the landowners, ensuring the comfort and ease of the people in all respects´. With blank integral leaf. A rare and most attractive letter. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG

Mizra Ali Asghar Khan Amin al-Soltan (1858-1907) Premier of Iran 1887-96, 1898-1904 and the first Prime Minister of Iran May - August 1907. Assassinated.