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Petition of Sarim al-Dawlah's wife
Wife of the deceased Sarim al-Dawlah complains to Farmanfarma about her son-in-law, Mirza ʻAli Khan Muʻtamad al-Sultan Sartip. The son-in-law has seized all his mother-in-law's properties and has abandoned her. Now she asks Farmanfarma to send her to the ʻAtabat.
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Petition to evacuate the barn
Petition written by the wife of Muhammad Hasan (son of the late Haji ‘Ali Riza Tajir [the merchant]) to the Friday prayer leader of Fars, requesting to write a note to Mi‘mar-bashi [the architect] asking him to evacuate her barn. Upon her husband’s request, she had rented the barn to Mi‘mar-bashi for fifty tumans, which her husband, Muhammad Hasan, had received. As she has now sold the barn to Muhammad Baqir, she expects Mi‘mar-bashi to vacate the property in exchange for fifty tumans.
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Petition by Mir Kazim the grocer
Mir Kazim the grocer writes to Hujjat al-Islam to tell him that he had to sell his sugar cube shop to provide for his family, that he has lost all his capital, and while he has opened a grocery shop, he is still unable to afford the cost of living, despite having sold his household furnishings, and even his wife's clothing, three years ago. He has been so desperate that has even pondered killing himself and his family. He requests assistance.
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ʻAziz al-Saltanah's petition to Nayib al-Saltanah
Petition from ʻAziz al-Saltanah, Nasir al-Din Shah's daughter, to Nayib al-Saltanah in which she mentions her having been born shortly after her father was killed, how she had lived all her life with her mother [Mahbub al-Saltanah] and that she had not inherited anything from her father. After the Constitutional Revolution, the Majlis had cut her pension to 1000 tumans. However, Mirza Fath Allah Khan, the provincial treasurer of Gilan, returned her payslip claiming that the money has been paid to Sardar Afkham. ʻAziz al-Saltanah writes about the hardship she has gone through and how she has...
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Petition of ʻAbd Allah to Fakhr al-Saltanah
ʻAbd Allah writes to Fakhr al-Saltanah (the daughter of Qavam al-Mulk) and requests her help after the confiscation of his and the daughter of Kalanbar's belongings by the governor of Kazirun.
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Petition from Mirza Muhammad Khan's wife
The wife and inheritor of Mirza Muhammad Khan requests the sale document for the garden she inherited from her husband
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Petition of Sulayman Khan's daughter and grandchild to Muzaffar al-Din Shah
The daughter and grandchild of Sulayman Khan Sahib Ikhtiyar complain to Muzaffar al-Din Shah Qajar about the assault on and plunder of their properties in Hamadan by Shujaʻ al-Mamalik and ʻAbbas Khan.
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Petition from Mahrukh's inheritor
Petition from Haji Hasan, Mahrukh's inheritor, about land and water rights in Khalil Abad that were in the hands of Muhammad Hasan and Habib Allah. According to the writer, the property belongs to Mahrukh, sister of Habib Allah. Without providing any documents, the current owner claims that he had purchased this property from Muhammad Hasan's late father. The writer asks the addressee to ban construction on this property until the ownership issue is resolved.
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Fatimah Khanum's complaint against the head of the Ottoman customhouse, 1904 or 1905
Fatimah Khanum, ʻAbd al-Rahim's inheritor, complains to the Ottoman Embassy that Karim Bayg, the head of Ottoman customhouse, with the help of Imam Jumʻah (the Friday prayer) and Ismaʻil, has unjustly sold part of her deceased husband's property to Muhammad ʻAli Muʻin al-Tujjar for less than its actual value. Fatimah Khanum claims that Muhammad ʻAli's loan to ʻAbd al-Rahim is a fraud and that despite her complaint against Karim Bayg she has received no response to her call for justice. In the other document, Karim Bayg Bash defends himself against Fatimah Khanum's complaint.
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Death of Hajiyah Shahzadah Khanum and the confiscation of her belongings, 1904
Hajiyah Khanum and her husband Haji Fazʻali Khan, acquaintances of Farmanfarma, died in Karbalaʼ, after which the Ottoman Empire confiscated their belongings because they had no heirs.
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