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The award was an honour of electing John Evershed as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

The letter discusses about the report to be prepared by A.Fowler for IAU commission on standard wavelenth and he asks John Evershed for any special suggestions to add in the report.

This letter was a reference to John Evershed letter that discusses regarding the spectral lines

This letter was mentioning Sulaiman's excuse and agreeing with his prediction. Further he mentioned about Sulaiman's earlier papers and his "Chapter III".

The letter disusses on John Evershed's paper which was written 18 moths ago saying that he gone through the paper and a good deal about the factor 2 and the red-shift. A. S. Eddington said that he now more or less concerned that Einstein's theory is wrong on this point, and the true theoritical red-shift is twice his value as you find. Further he mentioned that the Thomas Royds confused him on the desirable value as the eclipse.

This letter discusses on the predicted formula about the shifts of the solar lines in agreement with the observed values at the red end of the spectrum.

The letter was an acknowledgement from the Head of the observatory to John Evershed for arranging lenses properly for observation.

The letter was mentioning about enclosed letter from the Director of the Kodaikanal Observatory regarding the disposal of the Photoheliograph on loan from Greenwitch Observatory

The letter was an reply to Mrs. John Evershed saying that you enquired of my assistant about the name of "Evershed" as applied on lunar crater. Further he mentioned about its co-ordinates and enclosed the portion of the NASA map showing the crater named to it.

The letter points out that the new wire which was inserted in the Photoheliograph on Nov.14, 1922, does not appear to be taut in its frame. The resulting irregularities make the measure of the Zero point a little uncertain.