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.

The letter is from G.T. Walker to the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories informing about the sanctioned increase in pay of the photographic assistant at the Kodaikanal Observatory from the progressive pay of Rs. 30-40 to a fixed pay of Rs. 50/- per mensen with effect on 1 st May 1912.

The letter from G.T. Walker to the Director of Kodaikanal Observatory enclosing 'the letter is from P. Hawkins to the Director General of Observatories' with reference to the letter from the Department of Revenue and Agriculture informing that the Government of India has sanctioned the proposed expenditure of Rs.260/- on the improvement of 3rd Assistant's quarters at the Kodaikanal Observatories. He also informs about the three estimates submitted to the Madras Government for sanction.

The letter is from Gilbert T. Walker to the Director Kodaikanal informing about enclosing a copy from the Finance Department sanctioning thr transfer of the observer's house at Periyakulam together with its site to the Govt. of Madras free of cost.

The letter is from G.T. Walker to the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories informing about the sanctioned increase in pay of the photographic assistant at the Kodaikanal Observatory from the progressive pay of Rs. 30-40 to a fixed pay of Rs. 50/- per mensen with effect on 1 st May 1912.

The letter is from C. B. Ray to the Director of the Observatory requesting to countersign, the attached estimate for the repairs to the verandah of the Writer's quarters, so as to submit to the Executive Engineer to obtain sanction

The letter is from the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories to the Director General of Observatories in compliance with telegram No.169 dated March 27, 1912 enclosing for counter signature in halting allowance bills of the Director, Royds,Assistant Director and Appaswamy, Peon for the extra 31 days they spent at Poona.

This letter shows the amounts paid for railway freight on Poona instruments. In this letter, the Director requests a reduction of the heavy charges that would be incurred getting the rest of the instruments from Periyakulam.

The handwritten document was an explanatory memo by John Evershed, signed in 1918. A. A. Narayana Ayyar was the 3rd Assistant of the Solar Physics Observatory, Kodaikanal, from 1913 to 1918. During that period, he also served as the 2nd Assistant of the Observatory for more than one year. The memo was about the approval of the allowance provided to A. A. Narayana Ayyar for the service as 2nd Assistant. The exact dates during which he acted as the 2nd Assistant of the Observatory are also mentioned in the document.