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.

This is a letter from M.Brown executive engineer Madura special division to the director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories informing that the chief engineer has accepted the Messrs Siemens brothers contract agreement for electrical installation in Kodaikanal.

This is a letter from the executive engineer Madura to messrs Siemens Brothers. It talks about the overhead line to pump which amounts to approximately Rs.450. It also states that it is 700 yards instead of 400 for the 2" piping.

This letter was sent to the Deputy Director of Madras Observatory stating that he has no objections to the Director's proposal to renew the telegraph instrument at the Marine Office. And the budget contains the sum of only Rs 50 for the purchase and repairing the instruments.

This Letter is from the Director, Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories to the sub divisional officer Kodaikanal stating the approval of the proposed fencing and informing that the plan has been signed and returned with this letter.

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 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.

This is Reply letter to Mr Adams about working out seismograms so that they adopt the form proposed by the International Commission.

The letter is from H. S. Sales, Bridge Engineer, to John Evershed, Director of Kodaikanal Observatory, forwarding four drawings of the proposed astronomical observatory to be built in Lahore and further details.

The order is from the Government of Madras to the chairman, the Municipal Council, Kodaikanal, approving the proposal to extend its limits to the observatory buildings and as for the objection from the Director regarding the water supply, the area will be exempted from paying the water tax proviso(b) to section 84 of the Madras District Municipalities Act, 1920.