ABSTRACT

First published in Tait’s, o.s. XII, n.s. VIII, February 1841, pp. 97–109. 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.