Letter from a group of Qajar princes and princesses to Sardar Sipah, concerning their property inheritance from Muhammad Shah. The group includes ‘Izz al-Dawlah (son of Muhammad Shah), Iftikhar al-Saltanah, Qudrat al-Saltanah, Sharaf al-Saltanah (the latter three all daughters of Nasir al-Din Shah), ‘Aziz al-Dawlah (daughter of Muhammad Shah), ‘Amid al-Dawlah, son of ‘Aziz al-Dawlah, Akram al-Dawlah, son of Malik Ara, and ‘Izz al-Saltanah. They ask Sardar Sipah for the division of the properties documented in Ruzat al-Safa and Nasikh al-Tavarikh and that Haji Mirza Aqasi had handed over to...
ʻImad al-Saltanah wrote this booklet about the description of women who were considered for him to court. This booklet includes 10 pages.
ʻAlaviyah Khanum Kirmani's travel journal. ʻAlaviyah Khanum, ʻAli Khan and a few others went on Hajj and made pilgrimages to the shrines in Iraq. On the way back to Iran, she visited a number of cities including Tehran and the Nasiri Court. This travel journal was written by ʻAlaviyah Khanum Kirmani. On the first page of the book (this page was written by ʻAli Khan at the request of ʻAlaviyah Khanum), ʻAlaviyah Khanum noted that she wrote this book because she missed her husband and also to record these events in history. The author's actual name is not known and "ʻAlaviyah Khanum Kirmani"...
Correspondence of Tajmah Khanum, daughter of I‘tizad al-Saltanah, including a letter from her father discussing the use of mineral water and his return to Tehran in the near future, July [27?], 1880; a letter to Nasir al-Din Shah regarding a property in Khani Abad; guest lists and letters to her husband ‘Izz al-Dawlah Salur regarding the weddings of their daughters.
Khayrat-i hisan, 3 volumes, Tehran: no publisher, 1887, 1888, and 1889. Compiled by by Muhammad Hasan Khan Iʿtimad al-Saltanah, a biographical dictionary of famous women of Islam, provides information on some forty learned women from courtly circles in Qajar period.
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