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Petitions submitted to Saʻid al-Sultan
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;...
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Three financial documents
In one document, Mah Talʻat Khanum pays 20 tumans to Khanum Gurah for the maintenance of one-sixth of the village in March 1914; the other two documents are related to Lalah Gharib's rent payment for the village to Khanum Gurah in March 1916.
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Three reports to Saʻid al-Sultan
Three reports: a financial report from Muhammad Saʻid to Saʻid al-Sultan, about taxes and the submission of receipts to ʻAliyah Khanum (December 24, 1914); an economic and social report to Saʻid al-Sultan and Bihjat Khanum and a description of villagers' poverty and plight; a report about wheat transportation [to Sanandaj] and the participation of women in the process of preparing the wheat (February 17,1915). In the absence of Saʻid al-Sultan, the reports were sent to Bihjat Khanum;
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Letters from [Mah Talʻat Khanum] to [Saʻid al-Sultan]
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...