This letter is enquiring about preparing plans and estimates for the new buildings required and also asked for having a stone tablet designed with an inscription referring to the donor of some Poona instruments.

This letter was sent to the government astronomer from Major General C. Strahan, enclosing a copy from the Officiating Superintendent trigonometrical surveys asking about the redetermined places of certain circumpolar stars. Several of them have given very unsatisfactory results.

The letter is from The Director of Kodaikanal & Madras Observatories to The Meteorologist, Madras, informing that as the meteorological observations at Periyakulam were to be closed at the end of the month, there is no need to send a weather chart after that date.

This letter was sent to the officer in charge of No. 26 Party (Magnetic), Dehradun, from John Evershed enquiring about the reading of the 13th temperature in the underground room of the Magnetic Observatory, which might be discontinued on Sundays.

The letter is to the President, District Board Madura, about some survey in Kodaikanal

The letter is from The Director of Kodaikanal & Madras Observatories to The Revenue Divisional Officer, Dindigul, informing that the barometer will be removed by himself or by sending a capable assistant as soon as possible.

This letter was issued from the Department of Revenue and Agriculture (Meteo.), The Government of India agreed with the proposal of closing the Maharaja Takhtasingji Observatory at Poona, and the instruments would be shifted to the Solar Physics Observatory at Kodaikanal. The Director General of Observatories asked Mr Evershed to be present at Poona during the dismantling of the telescopes and also to send the 'enlarging apparatus and spectrum microscope' to Kodaikanal if its removal doesn't interfere with the working of Poona Observatory before abolition.

This letter was written by L. Robertson, Esquire, I.C.S., Secretary to Government to the Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Revenue and Agriculture, requesting the opinion of the Government of Bombay as to whether the Maharaja Takhtsingji Observatory at Poona should not be abolished on the retirement of Professor Naegamvala and as to whether the instruments etc. might not be removed to the observatory at Kodaikanal. He forwarded a list of principal instruments at the Poona Observatory and said the Maharaja of Bhavnagar accepted the above understanding.

The letter is to the Secretary of the Government of India about the special arrangements made by the General Superintendent for the despatch of ironwork and by the Executive Engineer for the prompt completion of buildings.

The letter gives a report on the occurance of the earthquake at Ongole at 8:27 a.m. of 4th March 1898