ARRIVAL IN LONDON ON 14-4-1914 AND
SETTLING DOWN AT TRINITY COLLEGE
 

Trinity College,  
11th June 1914.

 

 
My dear Krishna Row,
       Please excuse me for the long delay in writing to you. Now I am somewhat accustomed to the living here. Till now I did not feel comfortable and I would often think why I had come here. It is due to the difficulty of getting proper food. Had it not been for the good milk and fruits here I would have suffered more. Now I have determined to cook one or two things myself and have written to my native place to send some necessary things for it.
 
      After enjoying the pleasant voyage except for two or three days when I was sea-sick, I reached London on the 14th April when Mr. Neville and his brother were kindly waiting at the docks and took to me to Cromwell road where I remained a few days. I came to Cambridge on the 18th evening and remained for some days in Mr. Neville's house.

 
      Now I am living in the college and going to stay here for the future also even though it is more costly than lodging houses, as it will be inconvenient for the professors and myself if I stay outside the college.

 
      Mr. Hardy, Mr. Neville and others here are very unassuming, kind and obliging. As soon as I came here, Mr. Hardy paid £ 20 to the college for my entrance and other fees and made arrangements to give me a scholarship of £ 40 a year. The remaining £ 20 may be given in due course or may be taken for the fees of the tutors.

 
      I am attending lectures and have written two articles till now. Mr. Hardy is going to London today to read a paper on one of my results before the London Math. Society.

 
      I hope you have passed your examination. Is your brother coming here? My respects to your to your uncle and copliments to your brother.
 

Yours sincerely
S. Ramanujan  
 

c/o G. H. Hardy Esq.,
Trinity College.