This letter was about shifting the Lallemand cell to Kodaikanal. He left a separate note to Dr.Sinvhal also in this matter. Dr.Bappu explained its origin and its journey from Paris to Nainital.

The letter is from L. Robertson to Gilbert T. Walker, meteorological reporter to the government of India, informing that there is no objection from Michie Smith to go to Hyderabad, and it further states that as the visit is private purpose, the Nawab has to pay for travelling allowance fee and no other bills.

This letter is from K.D. Naegamvala to Dr G.T. Walker regarding lending two prisms to Kodaikanal, which was asked to be forwarded by passenger train where transit charges would also be considerable.

This letter from J. Evershed to the Director-General of Stores regarding the 30-degree prism ordered for Kodaikanal M6145 Hilger, which should not be sent out for trial as judged by Mr Shackleton, the prism does not meet the requirements of the specification and should be rejected.

This letter was reply to letter dated Oct. 29 about lenses. He was requesting 15-inch, 12-inch, 4-inch and a lens of about 7 ft. focus lenses to be send from Nizamaiah Observatory to Kodaikanal Road Station mentioning the purposes for which it requires. In addition the item has the telegram messages written by Evershed to Pocock and vice versa.

This letter contains information about testing of the 15 inch lens on stars etc and finding something wrong in color correction.

This letter is from John Evershed to Mr Bhaskaran about the instructions to pack the 15-inch lens in a large case. He also mentioned that he had put castor oil between the component lenses to keep them perfectly adjusted and saved about 8 percent of light otherwise lost by reflection.

The letter is from John Evershed to Messrs T. Cooke and Sons Ltd regarding a 12-inch photovisual lens. It states the condition after cleaning and testing.

The letter was an instruction for using the repaired lens and asking to send a complete telescope to compare and make the repairing process simple.

John Evershed, Director of Kodaikanal & Madras Observatory, wrote this letter to Gilbert T. Walker, assuming they might be getting the prism from Poona Observatory. He mentioned sending correspondence about the new micrometer and a specification. He devised another much simpler method of reducing moonlight comparable with 1st magnitude stars, which seems quite successful. He also proposed purchasing a Hartmann machine from private funds to save time and trouble.