Excerpt from Life and Struggles of William Lovett in His Pursuit of Bread, Knowledge, and Freedom, Vol. 2: With Some Short Account of the Different Associations He Belonged to and of the Opinions He Entertained Having been depicted by the opponents of Chartism in the blackest colours, I was regarded as something mon strous by many, and I must mention a little anecdote in proof of it. Riding on the top of an omnibus towards my brother’s house, I got into conversation with a gentleman beside me on the subject of mineralogy, he having some specimens with him. I said I wanted a few of a peculiar kind, but I did not know where to meet with them, when he told me he thought he could supply me if I called on him. I thanked him, and said I would do so. A little time before I got down I gave him my address in exchange for his own but when he saw my name, he said What William Lovett, the Chartist Yes, I replied, the same individual. Why, said he, scrutinizing me very earnestly, you don’t look like one evidently believing that a Chartist was something monstrous. Well, I said, as you gave me an invitation to call on you without knowing me, now you do know that I am a Chartist, your invitation had best be cancelled. Not so, he replied good-humouredly; we met on scientific grounds, and I do not trouble myself about politics, and if you call I shall be glad to see you. I did so in a short time, when he showed me his collection, and I purchased a few specimens of him. He proved to be a Superintendent of the Wesleyan Ministers of that district, and, I doubt not, a very estimable man, for all his notions about Chartists.

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