LETTERS 
ON 
ENTOMOLOGY 
LETTER I. 
MY DEAR HARRIET, 
It has often given me great con- 
cern to observe the inconsiderate and negligent 
manner in which you treat, and even torment, 
that most beautiful part of the creation, the tribe 
of insects, and particularly as your disposition is 
most foreign to any thing like cruelty ; you have 
therefore, my dear, no excuse, but ignorance of 
their real value and beauty, or mere thought- 
lessness, which, in a rational being, is of itself 
inexcusable. 
In the course of our correspondence, I will en- 
deavour, if you wish it, to impart the little know- 
ledge I have on the subject, and it may perhaps 
induce you to treat with greater regard, beings 
B 
