The Letters of Thomas De Quincey
Queen Square or Online 16 Queen Square, BathThe Letters of Thomas de Quincey: Archives, Autobiography, and the Literature of Addiction Thomas De Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), widely considered the first modern drug memoir. What is less well known is that De Quincey was also an inveterate letter writer, who in his private correspondence reveals...