[Treatise on composing letters]

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On writing (inshāʼ). It begins with an Arabic-Ottoman glossary of terms used in writing official and unofficial letters (f. 1v-3r), followed by a tutorial on writing letters. The following types of letter are included: from inferiors to superiors (f. 10v-14r), letters home (f. 14v-17r), from a child to his grandfather (f. 17v-19v), from a father to a son (f. 20r-22r), from a son to his mother (f. 22v-24v), from a mother to her child (f. 25r-26v), petition addressing the Sultan (f. 27r-28r), an emancipation certificate (f. 28v-30v), and newspaper writing (f. 31r-34v); a short lesson on basic arithmetic follows (f. 34v-35r). Two inserts laid in: a telegraph receipt, and a sheet in nastaʻliq shikastah about accounting in Persian.

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