William Wordsworth and Robert Southey : autograph manuscript fragment, with autograph corrections : Edinburgh, 1839.

Title from the published article originally featured in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1839.
Place of writing inferred from the fact that De Quincey worked and resided in Edinburgh from 1826 until 1840, when he fled to Glasgow to avoid prosecution for debt.
Text extensively corrected in the hand of the author.
Numbered "15" and "16" at head of sheet, with a line count of "32" in the upper left right hand corner of the recto and "39 lines" on the verso.
Approximately 1300 words on the subject of Southey's career in 1807-1808 and his work as a poet and prose writer; fragment from De Quincey's manuscript for his biographical essay entitled "William Wordsworth and Robert Southey", originally published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine for 1839 as number IV of a series of essays by the author entitled "Lake Reminiscences, from 1807 to 1830", the present fragment corresponding to the text on pages 458-460 of the printed essay; later reprinted, with omissions, in De Quincey's collected Works, edited by D. Masson, vol. II (Edinburgh, 1889).