From Thompson Forster   8 November 1870

Dear Sir

I send you the outline of a case I think may be interesting to you if it is, it can be proved or tested anytime as the people live close to this town—

The father when a baby had disease of the hip joints, with dislocation & shortening, & the discharge of a large quantity of pus— in due course he married, & had children all sound but the second one wh had shortening of the leg of the same side at the hip joints, the whole side of the pelvis seemed smaller & the tuber ischii lower, the femur shorter & smaller, but never any indication of disease

In the father you feel a thickening see a scar & find by touch & measurement dislocation upwards of the femur, with general thickening, the leg shortened 3 inches. The Son without any evidences of disease with leg shortened, shortening entirely in Femur & pelvis into only general diminution of size¹   should you think this case of any use as, proving the transmission of deformity from disease to offspring, I shall be happy to give you any further information you may require.

believe me | Yours Truly | Thompson Forster.