 Some time between 1934 and 1947 Hardy probably passed the notebook on to G. N. Watson, who with B. M. Wilson started on the project of editing Ramanujan's notebooks.However, Wilson died in 1935 and Watson seems to have lost interest in the project in the late 1930s.After Watson's death in 1965, J. M. Whittaker examined Watson's papers (which were a complete mess, due to be incinerated in a few days) and found Ramanujan's notebook, which he and R. A. Rankin sent to Trinity College Wren library on December 26, 1968. , following a suggestion by Lucy Slater, found the lost notebook in the spring of 1976 while on a visit to Trinity College.