ABSTRACT
First published in Tait’s, o.s. X, n.s. VI, August 1839, pp. 513–17. 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. 340–45, see Vol. 19, pp. 402–19. There are no known manuscripts relating to this part of the ‘Reminiscences’.
