Petitions submitted to Saʻid al-Sultan: one from Maymunabad villagers objecting to Bihjat Khanum's way of dividing donkeys--Bihjat Khanum is the wife of Saʻid al-Sultan; one by Ziba Vaziri, a relative of Asif Aʻzam, requesting payment of the revenue of half of Amirabad [village] following Rustam Khan (her husband)'s death and asking for ʻAli Muhammad Bayg's help— ʻAli Muhammad Bayg is Ziba Vaziri's overseer and Ziba Khanum claims that she inherited half of the village from her late husband, but in this petition she is merely asking for revenue and not for the half of the village itself;...
Letters from Mah Talʻat Khanum to Saʻid al-Sultan covering the following topics: a request for purchase of honey and potatoes, sending him a pair of socks, and finances; a request for the purchase of fabric and gold, the overseer ʻAbd al-Karim, Salar Fatih's debt, the political turmoil [in Kurdistan]; how some people are inviting Sardar Rashid to oppose to the local government; a reply to his previous letter, giving him advice and writing about a marriage; Muluk Khanum's giving birth to a stillborn; the marriage of the daughter of Shahzadah and Iʻzaz al-Mulk--Saʻid al-Sultan's sisters and...
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