Thank you! Richard describes his disease as palsy and dementia -- I would characterize it as either Dementia with Lewey Bodies or a combination of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. And those diary entries are in the story because readers suggested it so thanks to those who gave me the idea. Mary's letter was one of the earliest ones I did. I enjoyed have her championing Eustace's reading of all those wrong books.

Thanks again!