SITES TO SEE- TRULY PLANTING THE DREAMING DEEP.
Papaveraceae, Papaver somniferum L.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/etc/history.html
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Star (London, England), Monday, June 15, 1789
THE price of OPIUM has risen from 350 to 380 dollars per chest.
Calcutta News.
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St. James’s Chronicle">ST JAMES CHRONICLE or the British Evening Post (London, England), Thursday, July 2, 1789; Issue 4400.
Major Scott wrote from Calcutta on the necessity of Britain maintaining a monopoly on OPIUM. He saw that as the only method of preventing adulteration.
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- IN 1823, SYDNEY. at MR T M WALKER’S STORE, amongst the goods which had not ‘gone off ‘ at Auction were the following.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2181835
The Sydney Gazette and… Thursday 1 May 1823,
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IN JULY 1825, CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER WAS listed in the SYDNEY GAZETTE amongst BOOKS TO BE SOLD – rare and valuable – at AUCTION by Mr Robert Cooper in George-Street.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2184230
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Confessions of an English opium-eater, and kindred papers (1876) De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859
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The Selector. VAGARIES OF IMAGINATION.
The Sydney Gazette Wednesday 20 December 1826
VAGARIES OF IMAGINATION. A STRANGE TALE OF A YOUNG MAN CONVINCED OF HIS IMPENDING DEATH and the use of OPIUM in carrying him past the hour in which he believed he would perish.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2187139
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2189101
The Sydney Gazette and… Friday 5 October 1827
A quantity of the opium poppy is growing luxuriantly in the Government Garden. As the great value of this article in China has been ascertained, we recommend it to the attention of the agriculturists.
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OPIUM AND THE OPIUM APPETITE FROM INTERNET ARCHIVE.
1971.
http://www.archive.org/stream/opiumandopiumap00alongoog
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1881
The Opium habit and alcoholism: A treatise on the habits of opium and its compounds; alcohol … (1881)
Frederick Heman Hubbard
http://www.archive.org/details/opiumhabitandal00hubbgoog
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Author: China Hai guan zong shui wu si shu, China
Publisher: Statistical Deptartment of the Inspectorate General
http://www.archive.org/details/opium00chingoog
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All about Opium (1884)
Hartmann Henry Sultzberger
http://www.archive.org/details/allaboutopium00sultgoog
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The opium monopoly (1920)
La Motte, Ellen Newbold, 1873-1961
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