IO Islamic 4052 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Alternative title: Ruqaʿāt-i Mīrzā Ḥātim

Fragment of a larger collection of letters assembled by the eighteenth-century author, also known as Mīrzā Ḥātim, prefixed with a brief autobiographical preface, containing also the author's preferred title for the work

Born at ʿAẓīmābād (Patna), the author resided mostly in Shāhjahānābād (Delhi) as a darvīsh, living through Nādir Shāh Afshār's invasion and sack of the city (while at Qannawj), and corresponding with many important literary figures of the time, such as ʿAlī Ḥusayn Gardīzī (author of a taz̲kirah)

Correspondents include: Shāh Vajīh al-Dīn; Navvāb Sayf Khān; Shāh Ibrāhīm; Miyān Shāh Faṣīḥ al-Dīn (qāz̤ī of Qannawj); Mawlavī Fatḥ ʿAlī; Mīrzā Niyāz Bayg; Shaykh Fāʾiq Allāh; Khvājah Yūsuf Khān; Rashīd Khān; Miyān Muḥammad Yār; Mīr Aḥmad Saʿīd; Mir Navvāb (Mīr Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn "Āshnā"); Chawdharī Muḥammad Dawlat; Shāh Ẓuhūr Allāh at Delhi; Miyān Muḥammad Khusraw; Shāh Yatīm; Munshīʾ Thākur Dās; Miyān Ghulām Pīr