The letter is from K. N. Aiya Iyer, Chairman, Municipal Council to the Secretary to the Government of Madras, Local Self Government asking the Ministry to approve the proposal to extend municipal limits so as to include the Director's residence and other buildings belonging to the Observatory stating it was proposed in 1908 and its other pros and cons.

The letter is from M. R. Ry. K. N. Aiya Iyer to the Director, Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories, requesting to allow Public Work Overseer Mr K. Subbiah Pillai to enter the land to survey the Observatory area according to the government order to submit a revised description of the boundaries of the Municipality.

The letter is from M. R. Ry. A. V. Ramalinga Aiyar, Executive Engineer, Madura Division, to the Director, Kodaikanal Observatory, informing that transverse stiffeners may bend in the middle, and he suggests using horizontal ties and cross braces to stiffen the roof if it wouldn't be hindering instruments. He also said that he would get the transit shed repaired when he goes to Kodaikanal on 27 that month.

The letter is a copy of a letter from M. Brown to the Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, Madras, forwarded to Charles Michie Smith. It says about the sliding roof at the Kodaikanal Observatory.

This letter is written to Mr. Field regarding the removal of the revolving dome of the 20-inch telescope and the sending of the instruments and apparatus to Kodaikanal. The letter also asks to send some microscopes to attach to the barometers in Kodaikanal, if there are any spare ones.

This letter is from John Evershed to the superintending engineer to return the plans and estimates for the house to be constructed for the photographic assistant

This item is a letter from John Evershed, Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories, to the sub-division officer P.W.D Kodaikanal stating that the plans of the new buildings were submitted by the supervisor, which were returned with the required details.

This letter from John Evershed to the subdivision officer asking for petty repairs as whitewashing etc to the quarters in observatory compound are being delayed as repairs sanctioned by the department

This is a letter from the director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories to the executive engineer madura special division. It states that a small shed is required at a distance of about 600 feet from the engine house for protecting the pump that supplies water to the generating plant and the observatory.

The letter is from John Evershed, the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories, to the Executive Engineer Madura requesting for arranging for the painting of the front porch and woodwork of the office building and spectroheliograph building with chocolate paint before the dry weather ends.