CHAPTER XX 



LETTERS TO DR. J. FLETCHER (continued) AND TO 

 DR. BETHUNE 



Foreign correspondents Book by Dr. Napela Efforts to endow Agricultural 

 lectures at Oxford or Cambridge -Literary productions Sympathetic 

 communications. 



THE letters addressed to Dr. Fletcher after his visit to Miss 

 Ormerod and her sister Georgiana at St. Albans have here 

 been grouped, as a matter of convenience, with letters to 

 the Rev. Dr. C. J. S. Bethune, another Canadian Ento- 

 mologist, who held a high place in Miss Ormerod's esteem, 

 both as a man of science and as a sympathetic friend in 

 whom to confide in times of sorrow. 



To Dr. J. Fletcher, Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa, Canada. 



TORRIXGTON HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, 



September 29-30, 1893. 



DEAR DR. FLETCHER, We were very glad to hear you 

 had safely returned home. I wish we could have had a 

 longer chat, but I will be thankful for the very great 

 pleasure of chatting with you at all. 



Just after you had left (or rather, I think, were leaving) 

 England the Rothamsted Jubilee took place, which brought 

 very many distinguished agriculturists to this part of the 

 country, and you may imagine how much it was wished 

 that you could have been present. I did not attend, but 

 a few friends from long distances off looked in here on their 

 way. 



November 26 and December I, 1893. 



I have long been owing you a letter, and thanks, too, for 

 your " Entomological Report," which I read at once when 

 it reached me. You know the pleasure and the confidence 



I feel in all I learn from your writings. They and your 



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