This letter is from Deputy Director Madras Observatory to the Director Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories submitting papers related to the bench mark erected by the survey of India in the compound of the observatory.

This letter is from the Deputy Director to the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories requesting permission to have a new instrument according to estimate. And the two estimates are also countersigned from the Assistant Superintendent of Telegraphs, Madras Subdivision.

The letter describes the slight shock observed at the last night of 5th December 1898

The letter gives a report on the occurance of the earthquake from east to west at about 12:30 of 15th December 1898

In this letter, the Deputy Traffic Manager mentioned that Thomas Royds can send the telescope by wagon by unbroken gauge route if he wishes, with proper packing. And also asked to advice the District Traffic Superintendent to make necessary arrangements to send the wagon through over the South Indian railway.

The letter is from the Director General of Indian Observatories to the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories regarding seismic disturbances obtained from the seismographs used at the Alipore Observatory. It is for half a year, from July 1 to December 31, 1903.

The letter is from Gilbert T. Walker, the Director General of Observatories, to the Director of the Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories regarding the distribution list of publications. It is a confirmation to add the Kongliches Astrophysical Observatorium, Hungary, to the distribution list of publications.

The letter is from the Director General of Observatories to the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories regarding the supply of annual reports. It requests arrangements to ensure copies of the yearly report arrive by March.

This is a letter from the director general of observatories culcutta to John Evershed, Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories informing that the thermograph clock currently used stops working very frequently though it was repaired last year. It also requests for a new thermograph clock to be sent at the earliest.

The letter is from the Director General of Observatories to Charles Michie Smith regarding disturbances in the mines of Mysore, which they term as 'Air blast, enclosing a list of when it happened in August and September, asking to see if any earthquakes were recorded in Kodaikanal and send the remarks.