The item was a letter from John Eliot to Charles P. Butler for sending specimens of the sunshine cards printed from Lawrence Asylum Press, Madras, during each year 1901-02 and 1902-03.

This letter was about Beverley Oke research work on Wolf-Rayet stars and V444 Cygni. He was interested read M. K. Vainu Bappu's paper and thesis. He was eloborately discussing his work in this letter.

This is a letter from J.M.Lacey superintending engineer VI circle to the director of kodaikanal observatories asking for the return of plans and revised estimates for the electrical installations in Kodaikanal.

This letter informs about the occurance of earthquake on 8th February 1900 at 3 and 3:10a.m.

The letter is from J. Patterson to Charles Michie Smith regarding the request to provide Rs. 30 for glazed shutters for a dome. He asks to tell the requirements to the executive engineer so that necessary alterations can be made.

This is a letter from J. Patterson, meteorological reporter to the Government of India to the Director of Solar Physical observatory Kodaikanal regarding a petition made against an observer and the reasons surrounding it

This letter from J. Patterson to the Director asking a favour with a detailed explanation of the process of photocopying of the Seismograph

This letter is about sending a copy of the record of the seismic disturbances obtained from the seisomograph in use at the Alipore Observatory for the half year from 1st July to 31st December 1911 together with photo copies.

This Letter is from J H Field to the Director regarding a parcel post of 2 grass minimum thermometers No 1328922 and 1328930 both by J. Hicks which were required for the use of Kodaikanal Observatory

The letter is from J. H. Field to the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories regarding the distribution list of publications. It grants permission to add The University Observatory, Jena, Germany, to the distribution list of publications.