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Ramanujan’s letter to his mother dated September 11, 1914.

War is waging at many places. Each place has an extent of 200 miles. This is on the land. Many ships are sunk by battles raging in mid oceans. These are of two kinds. One is to fire directly at a ship; the other is to go under water, knock at the enemy ship and sink it. Not only this. They fly in aeroplanes at great heights, bomb the cities and ruin them. As soon as enemy planes are sighted in the sky, the planes resting on the ground take off and fly at great speeds and dash against them resulting in destruction and death.

All that you sent got broken but reached me without falling off because of the supporting cloth. I get everything here. I get certain provisions from the city (Madras). You need not send anything.

Yours,
Ramanujan.