One or two other friendships which will, I hope, last my life, date from that same time of strife and anxiety.
The amount of money subscribed by the public during the Knowlton and succeeding prosecutions gives some idea of the interest felt in the struggle.

The Defence Fund Committee in March, 1878, presented a balance-sheet, showing subscriptions amounting to L1,292 5s.4d., and total expenditure in the Queen v.

Bradlaugh and Besant, the Queen v.
Truelove, and the appeal against Mr.Vaughan's order (the last two up to date) of L1,274 10s.

This account was then closed and the balance of L17 15s.4d.passed on to a new fund for the defence of Mr.
Truelove, the carrying on of the appeal against the destruction of the Knowlton pamphlet, and the bearing of the costs incident on the petition lodged against myself.

In July this new fund had reached L196 16s.7d., and after paying the remainder of the costs in Mr.
Truelove's case, a balance of L26 15s.2d.was carried on.