On the fourth of March, 1847, Monsieur de Bonniere wrote to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of France: ‘Mu’tamídu’d-Dawlih, governor of Isfáhán, has just died leaving a fortune appraised at forty million francs.’
- A. L. M. Nicolas (“Siyyid ‘Alí-Muḥammad dit le Báb,” p. 242, note 192. He died, according to E. G. Browne (‘A Traveller’s Narrative,’ Note L, p. 227), in the month of Rabí’u’l-Avval of the year 1263 A.H. (Feb.-March, 1847 A.D.; Footnotes to chapter 10 provided by Shoghi Effendi)
