Sketches of Life and Manners; from the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater.

First published in Tait’s, o.s. XI, n.s. VII, June 1840, pp. 346–56. Reprinted F, Literary Reminiscences; from the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater, II (1851). De Quincey did not include the present item in SGG and there is no revised text. For the ‘Sketches’ as a whole, see above, pp. 141–3.