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LIBRARY

OF THE

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR

UNIVERSITY.

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From a picture by Peter Vandyke in the National Portrait Gallery.

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From a drawing by Robert Hancock in the National Portrait Gallery.

EDITOR'S PREFACE

THE matter of this volume breaks itself into two main divisions, as follows:

I. AUTOBIOGRAPHY CONTINUED FROM 1803 To 1808

Although De Quincey's Autobiography, so far as it was revised by himself in 1853 for the Edinburgh Collective Edition of his writings, stopped at 1803, when he went to Oxford, he left a continuation of that Autobiography, accessible to those that might be curious about it, in two old papers of his in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. One of these, bearing the continued general title "Sketches of Life and Manners from the Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater," but with the sub-title "Oxford," had appeared, in three successive

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