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From about Nov 1917 to mid 1918, Ramanujan stayed at Matlock House Sanatorium. The house was originally the Matlock House Hydro and is now Rutland Court. [1] It was here that he received Hardy's telegram in early March announcing that he was elected FRS [2].
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  1. Rankin, Robert A. Ramanujan's manuscripts and notebooks. Bull. London Math. Soc. 14 (1982) 81-97. See p. 96.
  2. Kanigel, Robert. The Man Who Knew Infinity. A Life of the Genius Ramanujan. (Scribner's, NY, 1991); Abacus (Little, Brown & Co. (UK)), London, 1992. p.295
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