This item is from A.Chatterson, Professor, College of Engineering, Madras to Charles Michie Smith Fort Astronomer Kodaikanal discussing a bill for Rs.350 which was paid to the cook.

The item is a request by A. A. Narayana Ayyar to revise the pay scale. He pointed out the difficulties that the employees have faced in the Kodaikanal Observatory, which can substantiate his request. The letter was written in 1920.

This is a letter from the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories to the executive engineer of Madura. It encloses a copy of a letter from the Under secretary of Government of India sanctioning an expenditure of Rs.3460 related to the scheme of Electrical installations in Kodaikanal Observatory

This is a letter from the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories to the director- general of observatories, Simla attached with the specifications for a new clock for Madras Observatory.

This letter was forwarded to the Director, Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories for transferring Poona instruments with a copy of the resolution of the Bombay Government.

This letter for sanctioning an expenditure of Rs. 2680 on the construction of quarters for the third Assistant at the Observatory at Kodaikanal

This letter is for returning the plans and estimates for the photographic assistant quarters countersigned

This is a letter for Director-General of Observatories from India Meteorological Department accompanying an invoice Rs 6/13/- from the mathematical Instrument Office, Calcutta on account of the morse papers for chronograph supplied to the Magnetic Observer

This letter encloses a distribution list for the photographic plates ordered in the last indent

This letter asking for the proposal of 'expensive grates' and a reasonable size of a fireplace.