Reporting matters including delivering some oil with ‘Abbas‘ali Bayg, as well as conveying a six-month loan request of one thousand tumans
Asks the addressee to send some items. There are two notes on the margin, one ordering to send the requested materials; and the other expressing the writer's dissatisfaction of not getting the work in order.
Talks about construction of a mansion, emphasizing completing it sooner rather than later, and relocating ʻIzzat al-Saltanah in andaruni of the mansion
Discusses the high cost of keeping the horses, asks the addressee to keep only ten horses for the use of Khanum's carriage, the andaruni, the addressee's carriage, breeding, and horse riding, and returning the rest. On the margin, there is a note ordering to keep only ten horses, to sometimes send two or three horses to ʻAbdul Abad, and to make sure there is enough hay.
Discusses the inability of peasants from Yaftabad to pay two thousand and two hundred tumans for rent, ʻIzzat al-Saltanah's visit to Yaftabad and the meeting with the peasants to discuss the rent, and the peasants being able to afford paying only five hundred for the rent
Including the arrival of Nasir al-Dawlah's son, staying with him until they get to Zanjan, and sending him to Tehran from there; his concern about Najm al-Saltanah's well-being; receiving ‘Abbas Mirza's telegram, staying in Amir Afshar's house, and leaving for Zanjan; arriving in Zanjan, the telegraph office in Zanjan being destroyed by bandits, and an order to send a new telegraph machine immediately
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