When I asked permission to go to the Botanical Gardens in Regent's Park the curator refused it, on the ground that his daughters studied there.

On every side repulse and insult, hard to struggle against, bitter to bear.

It was against difficulties of this kind on every side that we had to make our way, handicapped in every effort by our heresy.

Let our work be as good as it might--and our Science School was exceptionally successful--the subtle fragrance of heresy was everywhere distinguishable, and when Mr.Bradlaugh and myself are blamed for bitterness in our anti-Christian advocacy, this constant gnawing annoyance and petty persecution should be taken into account.

For him it was especially trying, for he saw his daughters--girls of ability and of high character, whose only crime was that they were his--insulted, sneered at, slandered, continually put at a disadvantage, because they were his children and loved and honoured him beyond all others.
It was in October, 1879, that I first met Herbert Burrows, though I did not become intimately acquainted with him till the Socialist troubles of the autumn of 1887 drew us into a common stream of work.
He came as a delegate from the Tower Hamlets Radical Association to a preliminary conference, called by Mr.Bradlaugh, at the Hall of Science, on October 11th, to consider the advisability of holding a great London Convention on Land Law Reform, to be attended by delegates from all parts of the kingdom.