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13 Park Parade
Harrogate
June 5 1903*2
My dear Dyer*3
You will I am sure be glad to have an autopsy answer to your Kind Enquiries -- Thanks, especially perhaps to the fine air of this place, & in spite of the weakening effect of 6 or 7 hot baths in the afternoons, I am really much better & for the last 2 days have been all but freed from the horrible burning & tingling in my limbs, the upper especially the petechiae are fading, & I have no sores except on my legs, especially the ankles, which prevent my walking. The

treatment has been sulphurous, I call it a seasoning for Purgatory.
I drink 2 huge tumblers of the water daily, & my limbs are still treated with linaments of acetate of lead-water, or Resinola soap or unguents as the case may be. The consequence of the alternating the lead linaments with the sulphur baths is that my legs are as black as a Negro's & I cautioned the Doctor anent lead lead-poisoning. Lady Hooker does all the bandaging unbandaging & rebandaging splendidly, which takes several hours daily, in the morning, after the bath, & evening as the case demands she is a splendid Nurse, & I have an order for her accompanying me to the bath.

The place is doing her also much good Our appetites are voracious, & we get all the fresh air we can.
The town is very attractive[?] for its gardens & the excellence of the private houses in literally all the suburbs. The roads every where good & they are [1 word crossed out, illeg.] literally lined with flowering trees & shrubs opposite the houses & in their gardens to an Extent I have never seen elsewhere. For at least a mile of every road out of the town there are seats at every few yards, & either eithers[sic] gas or electric lights. There is not a public house to be seen, nor any poverty. It is in fact a resort of the rich. Many fine houses belong to wealthy Leeds & even London people & the architecture of the houses great & small is a lesson to London Villadom.
We are most comfortable in our old quarters, facing the huge belt of meadow

that encircles a great part of the town, & have the yeomanry manoeuvring opposite the window most mornings.
The swarm of Ranunculi in the meadows all round is phenomenal, & the Daisies are in some places in extraordinary profusion along the roadside; a very small variety, with a perceptible blue tinge in their little haze[?], when seen in mass, they often form forming clumps 2--3 inches high & a foot or two across.
I hope that Harriet is back now & in the best of health. I can quite imagine your rejoicing at her return.
Please give our love to her & to Frances.
Ev[e]r affec[tionate]ly y[our]s | Jos. D. Hooker[signature]