ABSTRACT
First published in Tait’s, o.s. X, n.s. VI, April 1839, pp. 246–54. Reprinted F, Literary Reminiscences; from the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater, 2 vols (1851). Revised text in SGG, II, Autobiographic Sketches; with Recollections of the Lakes (1854), pp. 291–314, see Vol. 19, pp. 351–401. There are three manuscripts, as follows:
