This letter informing estimate about the provision for wooden floors to the bedrooms also and for tiling the roofo the outhouses to the quarters

The letter is to the Sub Divisional Officer, PWD, Kodaikanal, requesting to arrange for the painting of the thermometer house, magnetic hut and office room during that year.

This is a reply letter stating that the Director cannot undertake the construction of any new building without the sanction of the Government of India because it is not in the main building of the observatory but a very short distance away

The letter is to the Director of Kodaikanal & Madras Observatory regarding the works done on the sliding roof and the effect of storms on it.

This memorandum was written from the superintending Engineer for submitting plans and estimate of Rs 21,300 for constructing quarters for the European Assistant to the Director

This item contains Letters from G.S.T Harris the consulting Architect to Government to the Chief Engineer Public works department regarding the construction of observatory on Doddabetta Peak in the Nilgiris district and the constructions going on in the Kodaikanal Observatory.

This item is from the Deputy Secretary of India, Public works Department to the Secretary to the Government of Madras, Public Works Department regarding a sanction.

This letter to the superintending engineer about the Government approval for the construction of free quarters

This letter was sent to the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras observatories from the consulting architect to the Govt. of Madras to sanction the plans and estimate submitted to the Govt. It was mentioned that glazed and batten windows had been provided for the transit house, as a wooden floor would be expensive so that the concrete floor would remain, and a small window had been added to the top of the anemometer tower.

This letter to the Director informing that A. R. deChazal couldn't take responsibility of the estimate for building expensive grates rather than that he would order a revised estimate for that building