Two biographical sketches of Wordsworth by Thomas De Quincey : fragments of autograph manuscripts.

One sheet contains part of an account of De Quincey's first meeting with Wordsworth in 1807, while on a visit to the Lake District with Coleridge. De Quincey has titled this section "Otho" (a title he explains in a paragraph at the top of the page), and it begins "That night, the first of my personal intercourse with Wordsworth" and ends "and in no city (no, not Alexandria or Carthage)," with a footnote incorporated at the bottom of the page. The other sheet contains a description of Wordsworth's childhood in Hawkshead, his dandified habits at St. John's College, Cambridge, and the first time he got drunk, on the occasion of his first visit to Milton's rooms at Christ College. It begins "and free from the usual perils of a town" and ends "The rooms, which Wordsworth occupied at St. John's, were singularly circumstanced."