My dear Darwin

Just as I was starting on a short trip to Belgium from which I have but just returned, Hooker wrote to me to ask whether I could suggest the name of any one who might be able to lay down any treatment for your complaint—¹ I am very sorry to have delayed so long answering his query & still more so to learn by a note from him yesterday that you are at present suffering a great deal.—

I dont know whether D^r Garrod (84 Harley St) has ever been consulted in your case,² but if not I think he has had as great experience in gouty affections, if yours should be anything of that kind, as anyone—³ He is a sensible man & I dont know any one more to be recommended for a trial, which I most fervently hope may be of some benefit against your cruel foe—

Believe me | Yours very truly | Geo. Busk