[Fragment with Notes Relating to the ‘Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts’]

This fragment contains notes towards the ‘Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts’ (see above, pp. 397–408), as well as jottings on a number of subjects which preoccupied De Quincey in his published work – he touches on pre-and post-Christian morality in relation to the work of William Paley, miracles, English and Greek style and Hannibal.