ABSTRACT

First published in Tait’s o.s. X, n.s. VI, September 1839, pp. 569–81. Reprinted F, Literary Reminiscences; from the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater, II (1851). Revised text, titled ‘Early Memorials of Grasmere’, in SGG, II, Autobiographic Sketches; with Recollections of the Lakes (1854), pp. 104–41, see Vol.19, pp. 280–301.