Letters to Jahan Ara (Hajiyah Khanum) Pizishkiyan, including the following: a letter on the news of the pregnancy of her daughter Rukhsarah Khanum; a letter from her husband, Mirza Buzurg Shaykh al-Islam, with the seal of Mushir al-Saltanah embossed on letter; a letter from the daughter of Qavam al-Dawlah requesting that Jahan Ara find her an unmarried female singer from Qavzin; a letter that may concern the preparation of the dowry of her granddauther Asiyah Khanum; and another letter from Qavzin in which the author writes to her about a family legal dispute.
Miscellaneous letters addressed to Rukhsarah Khanum (wife of Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam), including: a letter from her father, Mirza Buzurg Shaykh al-Islam; permission for a wetnurse to breastfeed her infant child, dated 14 February 1892; a letter of condolence from Mirza Masʻud Shaykh al-Islam over the death of Mulki Jahan Khanum Rukni (1892); a letter from Mirza Abu Turab Shaykh al-Islam; Premier's reply to her request to inherit the stipend of her deceased father; Haj ʻUmma Khanum, wife of Hidayat Allah Hakimbashi, writing to her about going to Razjird; a letter from her maternal uncle...
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