Excerpt from Thomas De Quincey, His Life and Writings: With Unpublished Correspondence As we write, a new and elaborately-annotated edition of the Collected Works is being issued under the editorship of Professor Masson, and into this edition have been drawn many of the papers which were referred to in the first edition of this memoir, as having been omitted from the original Collected Works by their author, though they were of the utmost value to De Quincey students, alike as regards the light they throw on their author in a critical and in an autobiographical sense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.