The author congratulates Jahan Ara (Hajiyah Khanum) Pizishkiyan on the birth of her grandchild, ʻAli Baba (Mir Sayyid ʻAli Khan Shaykh al-Islami).
Sayyid ʻAbd Allah Shaykh al-Islami (Amjad al-Vizarah) writes to his sister, Fakhri Muʻazzam, in Khurasan. Includes a note written by his son, Mir Sayyid ʻAli Khan Shaykh al-Islami.
Sayyid ʻAbd Allah Shaykh al-Islami (Amjad al-Vizarah) offers Nawruz greetings to his wife, ʻAziz al-Muluk, and the rest of the family.
Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam writes to his paternal cousin, Rubabah Khanum, about the management of properties, his illness, and family.
Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam writes to Munshi Bashi about the dismissal of ʻIshrat Khanum's nanny and pregnancy of ʻAziz al-Muluk.
Correspondence is between Sayyid ʻAbd Allah Shaykh al-Islami (Amjad al-Vizarah) and his wife, ʻAziz al-Muluk, daughter of Rukhsarah Khanum and Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam. One of the letters from ʻAziz al-Muluk is written in the handwriting of Ashraf al-Saltanah because of an eye ailment.
Miscellaneous letters of Sayyid ʻAbd Allah Shaykh al-Islami (Amjad al-Vizarah), including letters from Mirza Abu Turab, Majd al-Islam, Fakhr al-Muluk, Ashraf al-Sadat, Manizhah Safdari Qajar (wife of Amjad al-Vizarah), ʻAziz Kashi(?), Khanum Khanumha, Muhibb ʻAli to Amjad al-Vizarah, and his letters to Bisharat al-Dawlah and his sister Fakhri Muʻazzam.
Letters of Rubabah Khanum, daughter of Mirza Mahmud Shaykh al-Islam, about the management of her properties in Mahmud Abad and financial and family affairs.
Letters include the following: Mirza Hasan Shaykh al-Islam writes to Mirza Hasan Khan Munshi Bashi about a trip to Tunikabun; about the division of a shipment of lettuce among family members; about the government's seizure of the properties of Qamar Khanum, daughter of Sa‘d al-Saltanah; Mirza Hasan instructs Munshi Bashi to give 700 tumans to Rafʻat al-Saltanah Mulkara, wife of his deceased father, Mirza Masʻud Shaykh al-Islam, to settle a family inheritance dispute; about the state of affairs since the constitutional revolution, and the efforts of his wife, Rukhsarah Khanum, to get him to...
Created by Afsar al-Muluk Shaykh al-Islami, daughter of Nimtaj (Taj al-Sadat) Shaykh al-Islami and Mirza Mufid Shaykh al-Islam (Dibaj), and wife of Sayyid ʻAli Shaykh al-Islami. According to Bahram Sheikholeslami, the images can be identified as follows (from left to right in each photograph): sequences 1 and 2 are the cover and the inside of the cover; seq. 3: Amjad al-Vizarah [Sayyid ʻAbd Allah Shaykh al-Islami]; seq. 4: Amjad al-Vizarah and his new born son, Sayyid ‘Ali Khan, Mashhad, 1290 SH (1911); seq. 5: top left: Afsar al-Muluk in wedding dress; top right: Sayyid ‘Ali Khan in...
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