John Curtis

“ I wish all entomologists were actuated by the same in print my willingness to forward to those engaged in science although there are men for whom I have certainly have put myself to inconvenience to serve indeed if it were not for about half a dozen men whom I do regard most sincerely I believe sometimes I would give up entomology altogether I meet with so little encouragement and so much vexation but I will turn from this unpleasant subject and answer your letter and before I do so let me ask you if you see the Annals de la Societe Ent. ”

“ I feel greatly indebted to you for your kind invitation but I do not see how it will be possible for me to visit the North of Ireland this year but I hope it may be the means of giving me the pleasure of meeting you again before many years are over, for I should enjoy looking over your cabinet with you..... Many thanks for the names of plants, - any localities will be useful I have got some from Lady Blake and Dale which I believe are accurate. ”

“ I hope however that the year after the next we may meet at Dublin, for nothing but bad health and an empty purse shall prevent me that pleasure. (absent in East Anglia) . I had hoped to find a few lines from you to tell me you were well and unluckily Mr. Templeton and a friend had called during my absence so that I did not even hear of you. ..... I believe the only prizes I have taken are Dasytes Filiformis, a new Chalcis and a new plume moth. I have however some insects in a box for you and also some from Mr. ”

“ I have just received some fine insects from Peru but no Hymenoptera, also interesting insects from Thebes, Greece, Italy and Colombia and an Ent tract from New Harmony, Indiana . Hope you are enjoying good health and have been able to devote some leisure to enty. and that I may ere long have the pleasure of hearing from you. ”