ABSTRACT

The manuscript of the first instalment of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, published in the London Magazine in September 1821, is held as MS 1988:194 in the Wordsworth Library, Dove Cottage, Grasmere. For an account of the context and composition of the work as a whole, see the head-note to Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, pp. 1–9 above.