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.

This letter was written to the Superintendent Engineer from H.G. Nicholson, proposing a new building for the Kodaikanal Observatory to house the instruments transferred from the Poona Observatory.

Letter from Sub Division Officer to Director of Kodaikanal Observatory regarding Brass Memorial tablet and requesting to acknowledge its receipt.

This letter was forwarded to the Director, Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories for transferring Poona instruments with a copy of the resolution of the Bombay Government.

This letter was forwarded to Thomas Royds and A. Hilger for arrangements for parcels by John Evershed to the Poona Observatory. It was mentioned that this bill of cost payment should be delivered before the end of the first financial year.

This letter was sent to Thomas Royds regarding the inscription of his highness late Maharaja Takhtasingji from Gilbert Thomas. Here, he mentioned some changes to be made in the inscription, especially there should not be a comma after Sir and asked about the person responsible for the draft so the required changes can be informed.

This fond contains letters, annual expenditure reports and bills of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories. It also contains correspondence of John Eliot,Charles Michie Smith and R.E.V.Arbuthnot during July 1901 to March 1903 regarding the index slip, meteorological summaries, seismological reviews and disturbances and other reports like annual expenditure, bills, and telegraphs. It has a report on the condition and proceedings of the government observatory, Colaba, written by N.A.F.Moos. It also has letters from the Royal Society of India, H. Grubb, J. Larmer, R. Fuess, William Butler and Charles P. Butler to the Meteorological Department and Kodaikanal & Madras Observatory.

The letter is from the Director of Telegraph Engineering to the Director of Kodaikanal Observatory requesting to provide the magnetograms of any terrestrial magnetic storm of 22nd and 23rd March 1920. And the reply to it from the Director.

This letter was sent to John Evershed for a supply of photographic plates for the years 1915- 1916 on demand. Also, it's replied that Imperial lantern plates may be substituted for deficiency. Three dozen 1/1 seed processes were intended for Kashmir.

This letter was sent to John Evershed, enclosing the velocities of the earth relative to the sun and a photograph of the Cu lines at 4480 and 4509. It is mentioned that the cost of the plates illustrating the bulletin was £3.7.9(500 copies), but the details had been sent to the Accountant General.