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.

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.

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.

This letter was regard to the question of treating the appointment of the mechanic at Kodaikanal Observatory as superior the Comptroller, India Treasuries. Further he mentioned that the man is a skilled instument maker and not an ordinary mechanic, hence Government of India to treat this as a special case.

The letter informs about the visit of Mr. Seshachar to the Kodaikanal Observatory during January and February of 1921. The Director General of Observatories asked Thomas Royds to make proper arrangements for the visitor. The visit of Evreshed to Lahore for the adjustment of specific astronomical instruments in the Observatory has also been mentioned.

This letter was about visit of Commonwealth meteorologist of Australia to India for examining our methods.

This Letter is from the Director General of Stores to Roberts S. Whipple for reassembling for a final optical and photographic test before being packed for transit. The slits required for these instruments have the form of circular arcs, and to make a set of sufficiently high quality, which is necessary to devise and make a particular machine, a photograph of which would be enclosed.

This letter is from the Director general of Stores to the Meteorological reporter about the object glass has been repaired by Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co. And returned per S. S "Rewa" which sailed on 11th June 1904

This is a letter from the Director Kodaikanal and Madras observatories to the director general of observatories simla forwarding a correspondence with the executive engineer regarding a proposal that he himself should be responsible for all the minor repairs to the roads and buildings of the observatory.

This letter is from the Director of Kodaikanal & Madras Observatories to the Executive Engineer, Madura, regarding the plans and estimates for the bookbinder shed. He prefers the original plan to place the bookbinder in the present workshop and build a new workshop, as the mechanic's work on the anvil will disturb the observation work in the south dome. It also suggests that the verandah is only needed at the east and west sides of the workshop as if the verandah is at all sides, it makes the room dark, and that part of the eastern verandah should be enclosed to be used as smiddy.