ABSTRACT
First published in Tait’s, o.s. X, n.s. VI, July 1839, pp. 453–64. 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. 315–40, see Vol. 19, pp. 402–19. There are two manuscripts, as follows:
