This Letter is from the Director, Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories to the executive engineer Madura special division on the assessment of the observatory building. In this letter the director is stating that the assessment on the observatory building adopted for water and drainage tax is the same as that which has been previously accepted for the house tax. These taxes were fixed after a lot of discussions in 1904 and was finally decided on a single sum being fixed for the whole of observatory buildings.

This font is regarding public works in Kodaikanal Observatory

This letter is from consulting Architect to Government ordering the sanction for the expenditure for Govt. Astronomer's residence and quarters for the members

This letter is from the Director of Kodaikanal & Madras Observatories to the Executive Engineer, Madura, regarding the plans and estimates for the bookbinder shed. He prefers the original plan to place the bookbinder in the present workshop and build a new workshop, as the mechanic's work on the anvil will disturb the observation work in the south dome. It also suggests that the verandah is only needed at the east and west sides of the workshop as if the verandah is at all sides, it makes the room dark, and that part of the eastern verandah should be enclosed to be used as smiddy.

In this memorandum the government had under consideration the question of constructing residential quarters for the officers of the Police Department and proposed the portion marked 'D' in the enclosed plan of the Madras Observatory

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

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

This letter is from John Evershed to the superintending engineer to return the plans and estimates for the house to be constructed for the photographic assistant

This letter to the director asking would he provide free quarter for a postmaster in case post and telegraph office be opened at observatory

This item was about the photograph of granite pillar in meteorology department compound at Nungampakkam, Chennai as seen today. In the compound of the Meteorology Department in Chennai, there is a 15-foot tall granite pillar weighing 10 tons. This granite pillar is part of the Regional Meteorological Centre in Chennai and is preserved as a monument. This is the place where Madras Observatory was existed.