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

First published in Tait’s, o.s. XI, n.s. VII, December 1840, pp. 765–76. 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. Internal evidence puts the date of composition of this part of the ‘Sketches’ around mid February 1838 (see below, p. 277). For the ‘Sketches’ as a whole, see above, pp. 141–3.