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Mirza Mufid Shaykh al-Islam to Mirza Buzurg Shaykh al-Islam
From Tehran, Mirza Mufid Shaykh al-Islam writes to his oldest son, Mirza Buzurg Shaykh al-Islam, in Mahmud Abad.
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Request for purchase of a water pipe tobacco bowl, 1881
The writer is asking Shahzadah Banu to purchase a qalyun tobacco bowl before her departure.
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Letter about a journey
The writer talks about the arrival of the Premier and sends her/his regards to the recipient via the Iranian ambassador in France. The writer describes her/his journey from Tehran, her/his stops in Hamadan and Kirmanshah due to illness, and his/her arrival in Baghdad. The writer describes her/his visit with the reader's son, Ahmad Khan the Colonel, in Kirmanshah and how he had expressed disappointment over the delay in receiving his father's letter. The writer suggests that such letters be delivered through the Iranian representatives in Baghdad. The author has also met Shahzadah Khanum....
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Khadijah Sultan Baygum's note
Note from Khadijah Sultan Baygum about Ruqiyah Sultan Baygum's debt from Mirza Abu Talib [‘Adil Isfahani], mentioning the rental money from January 2nd, 1862; on the reverse, the writer has written about the debt of Safar, a peasant from Hasan Abad, who is going on a journey to Baraz on Tuesday December 17th, 1861 for ten days and should receive one thousand dinars for each day.
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Vaqayiʻ al-ayyam
This is a travelogue of Shaykh al-Islam Mansur Qazvini in which he gives accounts of the lives of people. In the beginning it is indicated that the manuscript is in his own hand writing, but at the end it is mentioned that the scribe of this volume, which was finished in 1893, was Mirza ʻAli Akbar, the son of Karbalayi Ghulamʻali.
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Hajj travelogue, February or March 1882
According to Dr. Rasul Ja‘farian, publisher of the travelogue, the author is Hajiyah Mihr Mah Khanum ‘Ismat al-Saltanah (d. 3 August 1888), daughter of Farhad Mirza Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah and Jahan Ara Khanum. Jahan Ara is the daughter of Muhammad ‘Ali Mirza Dawlatshahi, son of Fath ‘Ali Shah. Hajiyah Mihr Mah Khanum ‘Ismat al-Saltanah married three times: first to Mirza Muhammad Qavam al-Dawlah Ashtiyani (d. 1873); then to Mirza Musa (d. 1881), son of Mirza Hadi Ashtiyani Vazir Lashgar; then to Mirza ʻAbd Allah Vahab Khan Asif al-Dawlah (d. 1887). Hajiyah Mihr Mah Khanum ‘Ismat al-Saltanah...
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Banning some women from crossing the border, 1895
Regarding prostitute women who initially lived in a village near Sanandaj but were expelled by the order of the author. The women later resided near Karand and Zahhab and then crossed the border of Kirmanshahan to Iraq. The author orders that they should be returned, and forced to repent with the help of members of the ‘ulama’, and bans their exit.
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Letter about visiting the Crown Prince in Tabriz
The writer talks about his mission to Tabriz and visit to the Crown Prince [Muzaffar al-Din Mirza], how this mission had failed and the Crown Prince had refused to see him, saying that he did not need a tutor. He describes the Crown Prince's outrage and adds that Shukuh al-Saltanah knew all along that this mission was doomed to fail. He then gives an account of how he had paid his debts to the butcher, the grocer, and the draper before leaving Tabriz as well as his meeting with Zill al-Sultan. He also mentions Shukuh al-Saltanah's complaint and disappointment about how the Crown Prince did...
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Letters from Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam to Rukhsarah Khanum
Several letters from Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam to his wife, Rukhsarah Khanum, about his trip to Anzali and visiting Muftakhar al-Dawlah.
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Power of attorney from Fatimah Baygum and ‘Ali Akbar to Haj Muhammad Hasan, 1863
Fatimah Baygum and her brother Aqa ‘Ali Akbar, children of Aqa Muhammad Husayn Karbalayi from Sar Chanah, give the power of attorney to their cousin, Haj Muhammad Hasan, regarding the inheritance from their brother, Aqa Zayn al-‘Abidin, who died in Nahavand on his way to the shrines in Iraq. They are asking for the remaining two-thirds of Aqa Zayn al-‘Abidin’s assets, after one-third of it is spent on the funeral. They also mention that if something happens to Haj Muhammad Hasan, he can assign another attorney to do the work.
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