The above Volumes contain all the Author's Introductions and Notes, as well as the Copyright Annotations of the late David Laing, LL.D. A Glossary and Index are also appended to each.
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Transcriber's Note
Variations in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained except in obvious cases of typographical errors.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] From Tait's Magazine for February 1835.—M.
[2] I.e. Lord Westport. Sec vol. i. pp. 161-2 et seq.—M.
[3] This paragraph is omitted in the American reprint of the Tait paper, probably because it repeats information given already. See the chapter entitled "The Priory, Chester," in Vol. I, and especially the concluding pages of that chapter. As, however, the paragraph contains some new particulars, and explains what follows, I have retained it, the rather because it ought to be the rule not to tamper with De Quincey's text on any such occasion.—M.
[4] From Tait's Magazine for June 1835.
[5] Among the students in Christ Church at this time was Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, afterwards so well known as a fellow-resident with De Quincey in Edinburgh. He was De Quincey's senior by four years, and had entered Christ Church in 1798. Among his acquaintances and fellow-students were Lord Gower, afterwards Duke of Sutherland, Lord Newtown, Elijah Impey (son of the famous Indian judge of that name), and others of high name and rank. In the Memoirs and Correspondence of Kirkpatrick Sharpe (published 1888) there are descriptions of the society of the college, with sketches of Dean Cyril Jackson, &c., from Sharpe's cynical pen.—M.