After the completion of the Violin Sonata No. 2 in 1923 Delius enjoyed some alleviation in his financial circumstances. This was, in part, helped (as has been mentioned above) by Balfour Gardiner's generous intervention to buy the house at Grez so that Delius and Jelka could enjoy old age. And more to the point, much of Delius's income from royalties, shares and family went fruitlessly on cures which brought little relief from his encroaching illnesss. 1923 also marked his last sojourn to Lesjaskog, and a trip to Rapallo during the winter months was the last journey he was able to make, save for the curative baths at Cassel, before it became impractical to leave Grez; and, by 1925, even these came to an end as Delius lost faith in his German doctors. At this juncture, the legacy of tertiary syphilis had left him completely blind and without the use of his arms or legs, making it imperative to seek the help of live-in male nurses (the so-called Brüder) who could not only feed and dress him, but carry him everywhere around the house. Thus life at Grez became monotonous, punctuated only by occasional excursions in the car they purchased (but which always required a chauffeur), news of performances of his music in Germany (where, through the offices of Schuricht, enthusiasm for his music had clearly not been impaired by the war), Austria, England, and through the efforts of Grainger, in America. And, in the knowledge that he was housebound, many of his musician friends – Grainger, Gardiner, Bax, the young Patrick Hadley, Cassirer, Fried, Edward Dent, Roger Quilter, O’Neill, Frederic Austin, E. J. Moeran, Kennedy Scott, Heseltine, Cecil Gray, the Barjanskys, the Harrison sisters and Gerald Moore, Heinrich Simon, the Howard-Joneses, Nadia Boulanger and Florent Schmitt – loyally paid their social visits. Live performances, especially of his own music, from those such as Grainger, Barjanksy, the Howard-Joneses and the Harrisons, revived him, and, thanks to the technological advent of the gramophone, the radio, the BBC (as well as other European broadcasting corporations) as well as the installation of electricity at Grez, he was able to listen to the few recordings of his music that were available (such as the Dance Rhapsody No. 1, Brigg Fair, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and excerpts from Hassan) as well as broadcasts of concerts from London and elsewhere.